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The state Department of Health will award money to help residents upgrade their cesspools. State law requires all cesspools to be removed or upgraded by 2050.
After state legislators passed a law in 2018 requiring property owners to convert their cesspools by 2050, a working group of experts has been evaluating how affordable the transition would
We are still behind when it comes to converting cesspools, but we have a rare opportunity to become a national leader in new sanitation technologies and policies.
Prosecutors this week alleged two former state lawmakers took bribes in exchange for shaping cesspool legislation while in office. If Hawaiʻi wants to meet its deadline of closing or upgrading nearly 90,000 cesspools by 2050, one local advocate says the state needs to pick up the pace.
Federal prosecutors say a Hawaiʻi state senator and member of the House of Representatives took bribes including envelopes of cash, Las Vegas hotel rooms and New Orleans casino chips in exchange for shaping cesspool legislation.