{"id":10263,"date":"2018-03-01T22:10:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10263"},"modified":"2020-12-03T01:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:18:48","slug":"alterations-to-kekaha-ditch-diversions-hinge-on-adcs-3-6m-funding-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10263","title":{"rendered":"Alterations to Kekaha Ditch Diversions Hinge on ADC\u2019s $3.6M Funding Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In April 2017, the state Commission on Water Resource Management approved a settlement agreement signed by the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC), the Kekaha Agriculture Association (KAA), the Kaua\u2018i Island Utility Cooperative, and the community group Po\u2018ai Wai Ola, to resolve a years-long dispute over alleged water waste by the KAA and ADC and restore flows to streams in West Kaua\u2018i diverted by those agencies via the Koke\u2018e and Kekaha ditch systems.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the settlement was hailed by the parties as a victory in that it avoided the historically fraught contested case hearing process, which in other water cases has dragged on for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the ADC and KAA had to file modification plans for the Kekaha Ditch, which diverts some of the streams, within 45 days of the agreement\u2019s signing. That hasn\u2019t happened. And last December, Earthjustice attorney Isaac Moriwake complained to the Water Commission about the delay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just pulling teeth on the implementation details,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that one of those details is the fact that the ADC lacked the funding to meet that deadline. The governor\u2019s budget bills this session include a request for $3.6 million to plan, design, and construct the necessary modifications to the Kekaha ditch system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModifications include changes to the existing concrete diversions, and the installation of transducers and telemetric equipment to instanta- neously relay water flows to the [Water Commission],\u201d an ADC report states. (For more background on this, read, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9645\">Kaua\u2018i Utility, Agriculture Groups Commit To Restoring, Monitoring Diverted Streams<\/a>,\u201d in our May 2017 issue.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teresa Dawson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2017, the state Commission on Water Resource Management approved a settlement agreement signed by the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC), the Kekaha Agriculture Association (KAA), the Kaua&lsquo;i Island Utility Cooperative, and the community group Po&lsquo;ai Wai Ola, to resolve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10263\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2018","tag-teresa-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}