Hanauma Bay reopens after city repairs sewage pump Hanauma Bay By HNN Staff | March 16, 2021 at 10:15 PM HST - Updated March 19 at 7:42 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve will reopen Saturday after crews finished repairing a sewage pump.
Officials discovered the malfunctioning pump Tuesday evening.
The malfunctioning pump serves all of the nature preserve’s bathroom facilities.
City crews and a contractor worked Wednesday to troubleshoot the issue, but were unable to verify the cause of the failure. Heavy equipment was brought in Thursday to help fix the pump.
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WHEELING The city of Wheeling is slated to introduce legislation tonight to raise water, sewer and garbage pickup rates for municipal customers.
According to one of the ordinances up for a first reading during tonight’s Wheeling City Council meeting, the sewage rate hike alone represents a 45-percent increase, which would provide funding for sewer system upgrades and improvement projects. The new legislation states that the city plans to issue one or more combined waterworks and sewer system revenue bonds of up to $45 million to finance the cost of designing, acquiring, building and equipping these projects.
Sewer projects through the city’s Water Pollution Control Division’s wastewater system serve both city residents and customers located outside of the city limits for the collection and treatment of sanitary sewage.