In a letter to the Public Utilities Commission on March 25, Douglas Codiga, attorney for the Wailuku Water Company, reported that the recent severe storms so severely damaged its irrigation and water delivery systems that the company is on the … Continued
In February, the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, Office of the Chair, entered into a $250,000 non-bid contract with Sunrise Strategies USA LLC. The contract was to take effect March 7 of this year and run through September 6, 2027. … Continued
If the state does not acquire the system as a whole, basically it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” the Land Division’s acting assistant administrator Lauren Yasaka told the state Board of Land and Natural Resources at … Continued
On March 2, Ryan Kanakaʻole, acting chair of the state Commission on Water Resource Management, did what members of the public clamored for him to do at the commission’s meeting last month: He rescinded an August 21 email then-commission chair … Continued
Above photo: Honokōhau Stream below Aotaki Weir. Credit: CWRM At its February 24 meeting, the state Commission on Water Resource Management directed Honokōhau ditch owner Maui Land and Pineapple Company to pay for a new U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge … Continued
Alakaʻi Wilderness Expansion: The Division of Forestry and Wildlife, part of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, is seeking public comment on a plan to increase by 2,400 acres the protected area of the Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve on Kauaʻi. … Continued
The waters off Kaʻūpūlehu are slated to reopen to fishing after a ten-year rest that, according to Hui Kahuwai executive director Rebecca Most, has resulted in twice as much fish biomass in the area compared to “any other area in … Continued
Above photo: A discharge from the Cox Drain in 2021, looking seaward. The drain is one of the outlets whose discharges are regulated under the NPDES permit issued in October. A decade ago, the state Agribusiness Development Corporation let lapse … Continued