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The Hawaii water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Hawaii. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
The Canoe slalom events during the 1996 Summer Olympics were conducted on a half-mile Olympic whitewater course that is fed by releases of water from Ocoee #3. The Ocoee Whitewater Center was built by the U.S. Forest Service for this purpose, including a large building along U.S. 64, whose eastbound lanes were originally built for traffic which are now converted to be used as a parking and ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km 2), of which 2.1 square miles (5.5 km 2) is land and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km 2), or 11.34%, is water. Kaʻala , the highest peak on Oahu (4,003 feet or 1,220 metres), is 5 miles (8 km) west of Wahiawā, overlooking Schofield Barracks.
The reservoir has a surface area of about 28,780 acres (11,650 ha), a flood-storage capacity of 749,406 acre-feet (924,379,000 m 3), and nearly 400 miles (640 km) of shoreline. [2]
Center Hill Lake has a storage capacity of 762,000 acre⋅ft (940,000,000 m 3) of water. The lake has approximately 415 mi (668 km) of shoreline, with the deepest point at 190 ft (58 m). The watershed area for the lake is 2,174 sq mi (5,630 km 2). The lake is well known for water recreation and fishing. Sunset over Center Hill Lake
Its name literally means "rippling water" or "overflowing water". [ 1 ] The mountain, at an elevation of 5,148 feet (1,569 m), averages more than 373 inches (9,500 mm ) of rain a year since 1912, with a record 683 inches (17,300 mm) in 1982; its summit is one of the rainiest spots on earth. [ 2 ]
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]