Protecting and Preserving Maui Nui’s Environment & Important Cultural Sites for Over 40 Years

Henry Curtis: HELCO Ignores Residential PV

By Henry Curtis 05/15/2013
A year ago the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) opened a regulatory proceeding on Integrated Resource Planning (IRP). The HECO Companies (HECO, MECO, and HELCO) were given a year to develop short-term Action Plans and evaluate how utility actions would be impacted by different long-term possible future scenarios. The PUC created a 68-member Advisory Group, to be overseen by an Independent Entity (IE), to help the utilities create these Action Plans.

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Community Solar Summit

Due to high demand, the Maui Solar Summit has changed locations from the college to the Castle Theater at the MACC. The hours are extended from 11:00am-1:30pm. A sandwich lunch by the Maui Culinary Academy will be available in the courtyard at 11:00am subsidized by the county for only $5. The blessing will start promptly at 11:30am. Please arrive early to get your seat.

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Water on Maui

East Maui Water Development East Maui Water for South Maui Growth? East Maui Water: Myths & Facts View the Dept. of Water Supply Map Maui County Board of Water Supply Website USGS Iao & Waihe’e Aquifer Status USGS: Effects of Agricultural Land-Use Changes and Rainfall on  GroundWater Recharge in Central and West Maui, Hawai‘i, 1926–2004 USGS: Ground-Water Availability in the Wailuku Area, Maui, Hawai’i 2008 USGS: Groundwater Availability in the Lahaina District, West Maui, Hawai’i USGS: Groundwater Availability … Read more

East Maui Water

East Maui Water Development Plan

East Maui Water History

emaui-2For approximately 100 years, billions of gallons of East Maui stream waters, originating on publicly owned watershed lands, have been diverted. A series of ditches and tunnels controlled by Alexander and Baldwin (A&B), Inc. carry the water to the cane and pineapple fields of Upcountry & Central Maui. The County Board of Water Supply contracts with A&B for delivery of approximately 5% of this flow to supply water to the Haiku, Makawao and Kula areas.

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Keone`o`io (La Perouse Bay) National Park

Keone`o`io Bay is the historic gateway to the six miles of South Maui’s pristine coastline (from Keone`o`io/La Perouse Bay to Kanaloa Point) is being proposed for a National Park. Congresswoman Patsy Mink introduced (H.R. 591) directing the National Park Service to conduct a feasibility study and a recent letter (May 2, 2001) to Rep. Mink from National Park Service Regional director John Reynolds indicated his intention to direct the NPS Honolulu office to undertake a reconnaissance study of the area.

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Honokowai Restoration Project

The Honokowai Cultural Overlay stabilization project is a component of Ka`anapali 2020, which includes restoration and preservation of an ancient farming archeological site, as well as a Multi-Cultural Center. The project is supported by businesses, organizations and the people of Maui. Steady progress is being made at the work site.

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