Course Correction
In an email last year, Water Commission Chair Dawn Chang basically repeated back what she had been told about past uses of groundwater for the irrigation of golf courses in Kapalua owned by TY Management Corporation.
Then the company or companies that fed her that information took it as an authorization to continue the use, which appeared nowhere in the groundwater use permit application submitted to the commission by Hawai‘i Water Service.
A staff proposal last month to help resolve the matter somehow failed to include an explicit solution.
The public’s repeated calls for the acting commission chair to rescinded her statements, however, finally broke through.
