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Molokai’s oldest and longest-running hotel, Hotel Moloka’i, is proposing a $1.4 million project to upgrade its wastewater treatment facility to comply with state Department of Health standards.
Proposed by the Association of Apartment Owners of Hotel Moloka’i, which is responsible for running and maintaining the hotel complex, the project would upgrade and construct a new wastewater treatment facility within the upper parking lot of the 2.5-acre waterfront property.
The cost of the project is about $1,362,600. Once permits and approvals are acquired, construction is anticipated to take approximately nine months to complete.
A final environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact was published April 23 in the state Office of Environmental Quality Control’s “The Environmental Notice.”
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Sand bags armor the shoreline in Kahana during an afternoon high tide in October. The Kahana Bay Steering Committee, which represents nine condo properties and one single-family kuleana parcel along the coastline, is proposing an erosion mitigation project that is estimated to cost between $26 million and $40 million. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Citing severe coastal erosion that puts public safety and infrastructure at risk, a group of Lahaina neighbors is proposing a multimillion dollar project that would gather offshore sand to expand Kahana Bay to about 65 feet similar to its width nearly a half century ago.
Back in the ’90s, if you had asked Rita Beving if Dallas would ever pass a climate plan, she would have laughed and said “good luck.” But the City Council passed Dallas first Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan last year.
The plan lays out 97 actions the city can take to help reach eight climate-related goals, including making buildings more efficient and ensuring communities breathe clean air. The city s Office of Environmental Quality is largely in charge of the plan s implementation. If everything goes according to that plan, Dallas will be carbon neutral by 2050, meeting a goal set out by the Paris Climate Accord.
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