Will Pu’u Anahulu Well Benefit Waikoloa Luxury Homes, Golf Course? As Environment Hawai’i reported last month, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Water and Land Development is planning to drill a $1.2 million, 18-inch well in the … Continued
The controversy over boating operations along Kaua’i’s North Shore, simmering for the last 15 years at least, has once more erupted into a full boil. The latest manifestation of the dispute takes the form of a lawsuit in federal court … 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
To help with the preparation of new Conservation District rules, the Department of Land and Natural Resources in June of 1993 hired Gail Atwater as a consultant. No request for proposals or bid solicitation was issued. Rather, the DLNR asked … Continued
Puna Geothermal Venture to Pay EPA $79,625 For 1991, 1993 Blowouts, Other Violations On September 14, 1994, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had reached a settlement with Puna Geothermal Venture regarding violations of the federal Superfund Act and … Continued
While looking into the state’s lease of water rights to the Waiahole Irrigation Company, Environment Hawai`i was denied access to information contained in a file on whose cover had been stamped the word “CONFIDENTIAL” in bright red ink. Staff at … Continued
A small medical-waste incinerator in `Aiea, O`ahu, has been in the news lately. Just how this came to be built is a story worth telling. Whether it will be allowed to remain is a story not yet written. The incinerator … Continued
Each day, the medical waste incinerator at Hilo Hospital burns about 110 twenty- to twenty-five gallon bags of infectious waste and 10 sharps containers, in addition to smaller volumes brought in from Honoka`a Hospital, clinics, doctors’ offices, and other agencies. … 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
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