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Maui County’s $1.07 billion budget will be up for second and final reading before the Maui County Council at its meeting Tuesday, Council Chairwoman Alice Lee ....
The Maui County Council will consider passage on second and final reading of the county’s fiscal year 2024 budget Tuesday. The Maui County Charter requires the council to take final action on the budget by June 10. ....
KAHANA The second Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) has been published for a $26,000,000 to $40,000,000 project to mitigate shoreline erosion from ....
Draft EIS published for Kahana Bay Erosion Mitigation project By BY LOUISE ROCKETT - | May 7, 2021 This artistic rendering by Oceanit shows the proposed T-groin, widened beach and vegetated berm looking north from Pohaku Beach Park. KAHANA Under siege for decades, Kahana Bay has been confronted with the extreme consequences of sea level rise, adverse weather phenomena, seaside development and coastal armoring, resulting in the near-terminal loss of a most vital lifeline to the overall health of this delicate marine ecosystem sand. According to Chip Fletcher, associate dean for academic affairs and professor, Department of Earth Sciences, at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii at Manoa, the shoreline along Kahana Bay has receded at an average rate of about one foot per year. ....
kcerizo@mauinews.com Sand bags armor the shoreline in Kahana during an afternoon high tide in October. The Kahana Bay Steering Committee, which represents nine condo properties and one single-family kuleana parcel along the coastline, is proposing an erosion mitigation project that is estimated to cost between $26 million and $40 million. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Citing severe coastal erosion that puts public safety and infrastructure at risk, a group of Lahaina neighbors is proposing a multimillion dollar project that would gather offshore sand to expand Kahana Bay to about 65 feet similar to its width nearly a half century ago. ....