#stormwater runoff

Year of Our Community Forests celebrates ‘Where We Live, Learn, and Play’

At a signing ceremony Friday, Gov. Josh Green, M.D., proclaimed 2025 as the “Year of Our Community Forests.”

Maui Brown Water Advisory

The public is advised to stay out of flood waters and storm water runoff “due to possible overflowing cesspools, sewer, manholes, pesticides, animal fecal matter, dead animals, pathogens, chemicals, and associated flood debris.”

Nature Conservancy Releases Study on Insuring Hawaiʻi Reefs Against Natural Disasters

The Nature Conservancy’s new two-year study found coral reefs in Hawai‘i could be insured against damage from hurricanes, marine heat waves (bleaching) and possibly even sedimentation from stormwater runoff.