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Earlier today, Hawaiian Electric warned of possible outages starting at 6 p.m. and lasting 30 minutes to an hour for different parts of the island at different times.
Lanikai Beach or Kaʻōhao Beach is located in Kaʻōhao, a community in the town of Kailua and on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Although there is a widespread belief that the name Lanikai means "heavenly sea", [1] that is a misconception and a grammatical error, since in the Hawaiian language, the qualifier (lani) comes after the noun (kai).
This water system distributes water collected from three water sources, one of which is approximately 2,600 feet (790 meters) from the storage tanks at the Red Hill facility. [18] The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) is the municipal water utility for the island of Oʻahu, and is an agency of the City and County of Honolulu. [24]
Dec. 5—The Halawa Shaft, one of Oahu's major sources of fresh drinking water, was permanently shut down following massive leaks of jet fuel at the Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage in 2021. The ...
Dec. 8—The state Health Department advises the public to remain out of waters at due to wastewater discharge from heavy rains, including Aina Haina, Manoa and Kapalama. Areas where the public ...
Temperatures of 90 °F (32 °C) and above are uncommon, with the exception of dry, leeward areas. In the leeward areas, temperatures may reach into the low 90s several days during the year, but temperatures higher than these are unusual. The highest temperature ever recorded on the islands was 100 °F (38 °C) on April 27, 1931, in Pāhala. The ...
A 2013 study of five tourism sectors in Hawai’i assessed total waste accumulation and resource consumption and estimated that the tourism industry was responsible for “21.7% of the island’s total energy consumption, 44.7% of the island-wide water consumption, and 10.7% of the island-wide waste generation”. [8]
Nov. 29—The board overseeing Oahu's municipal water system adopted a plan Monday for responding to water shortages in the event of an emergency, such as a severe drought, damage to ...