Trouble in Paradise - The Ongoing Struggle to Address Cesspool Systems in Hawaii (WWETT Show 2023)

Hawaii has some 88,000 cesspools across the state. Half of the state’s cesspools — 49,300 — are on Rep. Kahele’s (since declared he is leaving Congress to run as HI Governor) home island, Hawaii island. Kauai has 13,700, Maui County has 13,640 and Oahu has 11,300.  As Kahele notes, “The county of Hawaii has been in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act and EPA federal rules and regulations since 2010 when the county took over responsibility of the large capacity cesspools at