HILO The Hawaii County Council voted in favor of approving an initial 200 thousand dollars to fight a lawsuit which environmental advocates say would otherwise force the county to comply
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in September by members of Hui Mālama Honokōhau, claims the county is violating the Clean Water Act by continuously discharging treated sewage from the Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant into the Pacific Ocean via groundwater without the required National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
Hawaii County’s practice of dumping treated sewage into a permeable pit less than one mile from Honokohau Harbor on the Kona Coast has long troubled environmentalists, harbor users and those concerned for culturally significant Hawaiian sites surrounding the harbor.
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