Aloha! I wholeheartedly support this Bill 52 / CARE-88, to enhance disinfection standards for municipal wastewater across Maui. It is a no brainer, everything depends on an intact, pristine nearshore ecosystem. Tourism included. All decisions must reflect the significance and importance of protecting and restoring this vital relationship. Higher standards of treatment for Maui water is one way to repair this relationship! Please support! Mahalo!
Aloha pono 😍 basically, tourist visit these islands and consume a large amount of our prized, local seafood and amazing nutrition from our Aina. They then go home to their hotels on the water with seawalls eroding the shoreline and use the bathroom. This precious, wasted, fresh water then goes back into our Aina, down into our aquifers and out into the ocean creating nonfertile soil and pilau moana! There are incredible options to dealing with this literally messy situation! Mahalo
I am writing in strong support for Bill 52 / CARE-88, to enhance disinfection standards for municipal wastewater across Maui.
Here is a website that provides information on the treatment level & destination of your flush for Maui Island disposal methods:
www.FlushAware.com
I have also included some slides that I will share during the hearing, as well as a pair of 2015 reports that were commissioned by the County of Maui to characterize options for upgrading to R-1 capability in Central Maui, including UV disinfection.
I am in support of enhancing disinfection standards for our "wastewater." As we live on an ever-growing island our resources are finite and precious. We should treat all water as such. The current rate at which our island is growing, and the amount of water in our reservoirs, is unsustainable for the long term. We need higher standards of treatment for our water so that nothing is to waste.
The term “wastewater” should not be acceptable in our modern day vocabulary.
Back in the day, the Hawaiian islands (with the exception of O’ahu) supported more humans than present-day populations. The systems and ideology employed then used the word for freshwater twice - waiwai - to denote wealth. The land was fertile and managed appropriately in large due to the reverence for and responsible use of freshwater.
When we take the last few months into consideration, we can see and feel how a lack of water is incredibly impactful and dangerous to our extremely geographically isolated island. Water is life and we need to recall that is it the main reason we are able to survive in the middle of the Pacific in the first place.
If we take a few steps back, it is clear to see that to ever regard water as waste in our current way of thinking and state of the world borders on the insane. Applying proper disinfection to not only be able to re-use freshwater in a sustainable (native forests) and helpful (agro-forests) manner, but ensure that such a life giving substance does not become toxic (injection wells) to other fragile and imperative ecosystems (the reef) is crucial.
Let us revert our ways to days of better stewardship, shift our mindset away from a precious resource ever being regarded as waste and apply proper levels of disinfection as to not lethally inject it into one of earth’s most biodiverse, valuable and beautiful ecosystems.
I support higher standards for all Maui wastewater. I have snorkeled at Maalaea, Sugar Beach, Kamaole, Keawakapu, Ulua, and Makena. Coral degradation from 1969 to present is obvious. Please regulate our pollution. Regarding the Maalaea Condos' treatment: Have the Ting's, who collect leasehold revenue, ever had to provide infrastructure for wastewater? Perhaps we need to look beyond Maui County for funding these facilities. (Janice Hill, 808-264-3826, grandmother of 5 kama'aina kids, Wailuku resident)
Aloha! I wholeheartedly support this Bill 52 / CARE-88, to enhance disinfection standards for municipal wastewater across Maui. It is a no brainer, everything depends on an intact, pristine nearshore ecosystem. Tourism included. All decisions must reflect the significance and importance of protecting and restoring this vital relationship. Higher standards of treatment for Maui water is one way to repair this relationship! Please support! Mahalo!
Aloha pono 😍 basically, tourist visit these islands and consume a large amount of our prized, local seafood and amazing nutrition from our Aina. They then go home to their hotels on the water with seawalls eroding the shoreline and use the bathroom. This precious, wasted, fresh water then goes back into our Aina, down into our aquifers and out into the ocean creating nonfertile soil and pilau moana! There are incredible options to dealing with this literally messy situation! Mahalo
Aloha,
I am writing to correct my email address in a previous comment.
I can be reached at travis@reefpowermaui.com
Mahalo,
Travis Liggett
President, Reef Power LLC
Aloha,
I am writing in strong support for Bill 52 / CARE-88, to enhance disinfection standards for municipal wastewater across Maui.
Here is a website that provides information on the treatment level & destination of your flush for Maui Island disposal methods:
www.FlushAware.com
I have also included some slides that I will share during the hearing, as well as a pair of 2015 reports that were commissioned by the County of Maui to characterize options for upgrading to R-1 capability in Central Maui, including UV disinfection.
Mahalo for all your hard work Council Members!
Sincerely,
Travis Liggett
President, Reef Power LLC
www.reefpowermaui.com
www.instagram.com/reefpowermaui
www.instagram.com/flushaware
Email: travis@reeflowermaui.com
I am in support of enhancing disinfection standards for our "wastewater." As we live on an ever-growing island our resources are finite and precious. We should treat all water as such. The current rate at which our island is growing, and the amount of water in our reservoirs, is unsustainable for the long term. We need higher standards of treatment for our water so that nothing is to waste.
Mahalo
Katie Austin
I support this important legislation to help improve our environment.
The term “wastewater” should not be acceptable in our modern day vocabulary.
Back in the day, the Hawaiian islands (with the exception of O’ahu) supported more humans than present-day populations. The systems and ideology employed then used the word for freshwater twice - waiwai - to denote wealth. The land was fertile and managed appropriately in large due to the reverence for and responsible use of freshwater.
When we take the last few months into consideration, we can see and feel how a lack of water is incredibly impactful and dangerous to our extremely geographically isolated island. Water is life and we need to recall that is it the main reason we are able to survive in the middle of the Pacific in the first place.
If we take a few steps back, it is clear to see that to ever regard water as waste in our current way of thinking and state of the world borders on the insane. Applying proper disinfection to not only be able to re-use freshwater in a sustainable (native forests) and helpful (agro-forests) manner, but ensure that such a life giving substance does not become toxic (injection wells) to other fragile and imperative ecosystems (the reef) is crucial.
Let us revert our ways to days of better stewardship, shift our mindset away from a precious resource ever being regarded as waste and apply proper levels of disinfection as to not lethally inject it into one of earth’s most biodiverse, valuable and beautiful ecosystems.
Mahalo Aloha - Jamie
I support CARE88
I support higher standards for all Maui wastewater. I have snorkeled at Maalaea, Sugar Beach, Kamaole, Keawakapu, Ulua, and Makena. Coral degradation from 1969 to present is obvious. Please regulate our pollution. Regarding the Maalaea Condos' treatment: Have the Ting's, who collect leasehold revenue, ever had to provide infrastructure for wastewater? Perhaps we need to look beyond Maui County for funding these facilities. (Janice Hill, 808-264-3826, grandmother of 5 kama'aina kids, Wailuku resident)