In November, the state Commission on Water Resource Management will open the contested case to decide who will ultimately obtain rights to use the water in the Waiahole Ditch, a system of tunnels and ditches that carries millions of gallons … Continued
The Commission on Water Resource Management has approved a contested case hearing to be held on the long-term fate of water in the Waiahole ditch. The decision occurred at the commission’s meeting on November 16, where it considered the formal … Continued
In May, after a year’s worth of meetings, hearings, and agonized discussion, the Stream Protection and Management Task Force, appointed by the state Commission on Water Resource Management, released a report on its recommendations and suggestions. At about the same … Continued
The most common vehicle used by the Division of Land Management to authorize the landscaping of beach reserve land in Kihei is the month-to-month revocable permit. Theoretically, the permit can be cancelled on one month’s notice by either party. Only … Continued
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Water and Land Development is paying $20,000 to the engineering firm of Mink & Yuen, Inc., to prepare an “assessment” of the Waiahole Ditch System. The first knowledge that the … Continued
On October 19, 1994, the state Commission on Water Resource Management approved a process of mediation intended to resolve the issue of complaints that water from the Waiahole Ditch was being wasted. More than a dozen claimants to the water … Continued
On September 29, the Commission on Water Resource Management scheduled a hearing on O’ahu Sugar Company’s release of up to 15 million gallons a day of water from the Waiahole ditch on the leeward side of the island. At the … Continued
Diversified agriculture is a term that has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent months. As more and more acres of plantation lands are being pulled out of sugar production and, to a lesser extent, pineapple cultivation, the idea of replacing these … Continued
The Hawaiian irrigation projects, though they are so far away and function so smoothly that few ever think of them, are the most remarkable and permanent change that man has wrought in the islands. If on some ultimate judgment day … Continued