Category: Environment
What do you know about the Pacific Disaster Center?
4/7/24 #kihei #pacificdisastercenter Were you aware that this world wide operation is based right here is central Kihei? Winner of the 2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, the University of Hawai’i’s Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is a global leader in the application of life-saving disaster management science, early warning technology, and advanced analytics. At...
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South Kihei Road Closed this weekend (4/6 – 4/8/24)!
4/2/24 #kihei Starting 7:30 AM Saturday morning South Kihei Road will be closed between Kaonoulu and Kūlanihāko‘i. As we know, without the long awaited North-South Collector Road (NSCR) at this location, there is no County transportation route. Thus the only route is the State Highway. County Public Works (DPW) did some road repairs in this same stretch of road last month. Road repairs on...
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We are doing something about cesspools in South Maui, but it is a statewide problem
3/30/24 #kihei Our KCA Infrastructure & Transportation committee (ITC) has spent months on actions to mitigate the cesspool problem in our district, particularly in Maui Meadows: But this opinion piece in Civil Beat takes a wider view looking at the issue State-wide:
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Hawaii’s Firefighting Leaders Share Their Lessons
3/28/2024 #wildfire From Civil Beat: Hawaii’s Firefighting Leaders Share Their Lessons With Officials From Across The World Representatives from fire organizations statewide are at a conference this week in Reno about minimizing and managing wildfire threats. Preventing the next Lahaina is a community responsibility that will take incentives and penalties, Hawaii’s leading fire...
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Myths and Facts About Watering the South Maui Desert
3/19/2024 #kihei #water Missed the public meeting last week about where South Maui water comes from? You can now watch it at your leisure:
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Road repairs on South Kihei Road from January 2024 mud flood continue this week
UPDATE 3/19/24 #kihei We swung by this afternoon, & with no one working there, we are guessing the action is pau. 3/19/24 #kihei Yesterday morning a crew from the Highways Division of the Department of Public Works was at work on the makai side of South Kihei Road (SKR) just South of the Kūlanihāko‘i stream. This part of the roadway was washed away back in January and has had...
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THE DESIGNER WHO’S TRYING TO TRANSFORM YOUR CITY INTO A SPONGE
Sanya Mangrove Park is just one of many “sponge” projects in China, a way to work with water instead of fighting it.COURTESY OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION 3/15/2024 #urbanplanning #water From Wired March 15, 2024: The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit...
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Emergency Preparedness Workshop March 16 at 8am
3/13/2024 #kihei #emergency #preparedness #training From the UH CTAHR extension faculty: The UH CTAHR extension faculty is offering FREE Preparing Our Neighbors and Ohana (PONO) Emergency Preparedness Workshops for Maui county residents and the first one is this Saturday, March 16th in Kihei from 8-1pm at Kihei Charter School. Please get the word out to your friends and family as we still have...
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Will THIS help with the mudfloods in North Kihei?
UPDATE 3/7/24 This morning the Council’s WAI committee unanimously approved this action, so it moves onto the full council, Following some of our testimony, panel obtained some clarification. The debris removed will not be tested, and will be delivered to Kaonoulu Ranch lands mauka the highway. a reasonable distance from the stream,...
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Need to Remove Debris from Kīhei Beaches
2/19/2024 #kihei #beach #debris Guest post from Dr. Mary Trotto After the storm in January, piles of debris came down the mountain and ended up on our beaches in Kihei. Last year we had a similar event and a similar dumping of upcountry debris on our beaches. At that time, after a number of emails I was told that the State had jurisdiction over our beaches but there is an...
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UPDATE 2/09 ROAD OPENED!! with the North Kihei mud flooding?
2/09/24 OPENED THIS AFTERNOON As we watched & reported for weeks, it seemed apparent that this week ,with a large DPW crew with heavy equipment in action, that soon it would have that single spot repair completed, and the road opened. For weeks most days no one was working there, but after about three weeks, the segment of the road is open. ...
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It is a different source, but North Kihei gets yet more flooding
2/8/24 #kihei North Kihei cannot get a break from flooding. At least this time the flooding is clean water, not the “mud flood” stormwater variety, but as it gushes over the road on to private property, you do not want it in your home. And it wastes a lot of potable water when a major pipe bursts. The County has asked South Maui to conserve water for 24 hours due to the...
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Next Community Meeting
Tuesday, May 21 - 6:30 pm
ProArts Playhouse, Azeka Makai
1280 S. Kihei Road
Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei
Dr. Erin Hughey, Director of Global Operations
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global) is an applied research center managed by the University of Hawaii that supports the most demanding governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide in helping to create a safer, more disaster resilient world. For more than 25 years, we’ve helped our partners enhance disaster management capacity, save lives, and reduce disaster losses through the application of our advanced tools and technologies, evidence-based research, and analytical information.
As always, we will be collecting donations for the MAUI FOOD BANK. They can stretch a dollar like no one else so checks sealed in envelopes are also welcome.