Mayor calling for water conservation

From the Maui News Mayor Alan Arakawa is urging Maui residents to conserve water while underground aquifers recharge their supply of fresh water. … The appeal is a…

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Maui Stream Flows Below Normal

Excerpted from a Maui News article The latest report from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that stream flow in Maui County and statewide is below normal…

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Hamakuapoko 2nd Reading

Friday October 7, 2011 – Second Reading of Bill to Repeal Ban on Human consumption of Hamakuapoko Well Water at Maui County Council Sign up for testimony begins…

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Waihe’e Aquifer Fact Sheet

FACT: Waihe’e aquifer water is some of the best quality water on Maui FACT: Few families living beyond…

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EPA Agreement Finalized For Full Disinfection of Lahaina Wastewater Facility

After much foot-dragging, nay-saying and denial, Maui County finally agreed to clean up Lahaina wastewater going into injection wells after being threatened by a Earth Justice lawsuit. Read…

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Waihe’e & Iao Aquifer Groundwater Levels Declining

From http://hi.water.usgs.gov/recent/iao/ Background information about the Iao and Waihee aquifer areas Since the introduction of pumping, groundwater levels have declined and the chloride concentrations of pumped water…

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Businessman eyes Waihee parcels for bottled-water plant

Extracted from article by Ilima Loomis of the Maui News Tony Liserre… said he was proposing a plant that could bottle up to 220,000 gallons of…

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Radio Show: Tony Liserre Discusses Waihe’e Bottling Plant

Maui County’s Environmental Coordinator Rob Parsons will be hosting Don Couch’s radio show “On the Couch” tomorrow morning, Tuesday Sept. 20th, with guest, Tony Liserre, to…

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Petition to Prohibit Waihe’e Water Exports Delivered to DLNR

In a space of 4 days organizers collected almost 200 signatures from Maui residents opposed to the idea of a Waihe’e water bottling plant exporting any water from Maui….

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Hamakuapoko Human Use: 1st OK at Council 6-3

Initial OK given to reopening of wells September 17, 2011      MAUI NEWSExcerpts…

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