Region IX of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State of Hawaii, and the City and County of Honolulu announced today the broad outline of a seminal settlement agreement over the future management of Honolulu’s sewage collection and treatment plant system for the next 25 years.
The City will implement a long-term schedule for upgrading its Honouliuli and Sand Island primary waste water treatment plants to more advanced secondary treatment systems.
It should be noted that this action came about as a result of citizen watchdog groups who were dissatisfied by the slipshod way that the sewage systems was being run. Maui’s Cheryl Okuma, Director of Environmental Management, was especially criticized during her tenure in Honolulu for her lack of action in maintaining and improving the system.
And you wondered why Maui is having such a hard time getting progress out of our Dept. of Environmental (Mis)Management.