Complex Ownership Regime Delays Fix To High Hazard Reservoir in North Kaua‘i
The owners of lands beneath and surrounding the Waiakalua Reservoir in North Kaua`i are facing $65,000 in fines if they don’t steadily progress toward making the sugarcane plantation-era fixture safer. The reservoir is relatively small compared to the Kaloko Reservoir, … Continued
As Seabed Mining Plans Advance, So, Too, Does Push for Moratorium
A huge area of the open ocean lying between Hawai`i and Mexico could be open to the mining of metallic nodules found on the seafloor as early as the middle of next year. And, at this time, it’s an open … Continued
New & Noteworthy: Wire Leader Ban, Hawai‘i Litigation, And a Correction
Wire Leader Ban: The National Marine Fisheries Service has published a final rule that, effective May 31, will ban the use of steel wire leaders by Hawai`i longline fishing vessels that target tunas. The leader is the part of the … Continued
Board Talk: Slaughterhouse Squabble, Eroding Graves, Fireworks Denied
Can a Solar Farm Coexist with Cattle Pens? Renewable Energy Company Will Investigate A renewable energy developer pursuing a project on lands leased by the state’s central slaughterhouse received a right-of-entry permit from the Board of Land and Natural Resources … Continued
USGS Studies Describe Extent to Which Pumping Alters Windward Oʻahu Streams
Preliminary groundwater modeling results from the U.S. Geological Survey seem to support what staff with the Commission on Water Resource Management believed when they proposed new interim instream flow standards (IIFS) for He`eia Stream in Windward Oʻahu more than a … Continued