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Ocean water quality samples taken from seven sites off the Lahaina burn zone showed no high bacteria levels five months after the Aug. 8 wildfires, according to the 2023 Blue Water Task Force water quality report released by the Surfrider Foundation Hawaiʻi.

The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific. But the stunning views obscure an environmental problem beneath the ground. This rural part of the island of Oahu&...

Hawaii has 83,000 cesspools, more than any other state, and many are close to the shoreline. The system has long been unsanitary but its increasingly an environmental problem, too. Rising

HONOLULU — The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and

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HONOLULU (AP) — The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific.

Hawaii has 83,000 cesspools, more than any other state, and many are close to the shoreline, threatened by rising seas and more intense storms.

The state is trying to get rid of its cesspools, but rising seas are eroding coastline fast.

Thousands of cesspools along the Hawaiian shoreline are inching closer to contaminating the ocean and groundwater as climate change erodes the state's shoreline.

Invasive algae outcompetes natives in coastal ecosystems affected by polluted groundwater flowing to the sea, according to a study conducted by a team of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers.