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Maui’s volunteer-based ocean water quality monitoring program Hui O Ka Wai Ola celebrated a special milestone: its 100th sampling session since the program began on Maui in 2016.

The project focuses on Hāpapa watershed’s three gulches (Kūlanihākoʻi, Waipuilani and Kēōkea) which are responsible for most of Kīhei’s stormwater flooding.

Maui Nui Marine Resource Council invites the public to help protect marine life and water quality in Māʻalaea Bay by participating in a clean-up of trash that has been accumulating in the Māʻalaea ditch alongside the Honoapiʻilani Highway.

As part of its ongoing work to improve ocean water quality in Māʻalaea Bay, the nonprofit Maui Nui Marine Resource Council is working in partnership with Goodfellow Bros. in the Pōhākea watershed to install firebreaks to suppress wildfires and prevent sediment-laden runoff into the ocean.

An innovative pilot project that uses oysters to improve water quality at Maui’s Māʻalaea Harbor was launched on Friday by the Maui Nui Marine Resource Council.

The Coral Reef Alliance hosts a volunteer Native Planting Day in West Maui on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

A group of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey have compiled a multi-year study of the long fringing coral reef off south Molokai. The study looks at the life of the reef and the threat it faces from sediment, runoff and pollutants caused by land based activities. Scientists say the study sheds new understanding of […]