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Preliminary Finding of Facts: Copy of the Petition to Designate Keauhou Aquifer System as a Ground Water Management Area

January 9, 2015

9 Jan 2015: These Preliminary Findings of Fact (FOF) have been prepared for the Commission in its consideration whether to proceed to the next step in the process to designate the Keauhou Aquifer System Area, Kona, Hawaii as a ground water management area under the Water Code.  The FOF are not final and may be further revised…

The Preliminary FOF is a brief summary of a much more complex and technical record.  There are new questions including climate change conditions, the relationship and mixing of high-level and basal ground water, the projected water demand (and “authorized planned use”) of different land use scenarios, the state (and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands) project water requirements, the sequencing, location, and the development of infrastructure, and the incorporation of traditional and customary practices…

A copy of the report is here.

 

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