Maui County has declared a \u201cstage 2\u201d water shortage for West Maui, requiring an end to all nonessential water for commercial and industrial uses and limiting irrigation to no more than one day a week.<\/p>\n
County officials said in a news release that a stage 2 water shortage is triggered when the Director of Water Supply projects anticipates water demand will exceed the available water supply by 16% to 30%.<\/p>\n
Honokohau Stream flow is low, said county officials, while the inflow to Mahinahina Water Treatment Facility is zero. Additionally, the U.S. drought monitor forecasts \u201cD-2\u201d severe drought conditions will continue, officials said.<\/p>\n
All of these factors, officials said, support the decision to upgrade to a stage 2 water shortage for West Maui.<\/p>\n
According to the county release, the following water use restrictions apply to West Maui water consumers:<\/p>\n
>> All nonessential water use for commercial and industrial use should cease.<\/p>\n
Don’t miss out on what’s happening!<\/strong><\/p>\n Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It’s FREE!<\/p>\n >> Irrigation is allowed for no more than one day a week, according to the following schedule: Wednesday for even-numbered residential addresses; Thursday for odd-numbered residential addresses Friday for even-numbered commercial facilities and multifamily units; Saturday for even-numbered commercial facilities and multifamily units.<\/p>\n >> Plant containers, trees, shrubs and vegetable gardens may be watered one additional day using only drip irrigation.<\/p>\n >> Customers must repair leaks, breaks or faulty sprinklers within three days of notice or notification to the extent feasible.<\/p>\n >> The use of potable water at temporary construction meters is prohibited.<\/p>\n >> Personal washing of vehicles is prohibited.<\/p>\n >> Parks, school grounds and recreation fields adhere to the one day a week irrigation schedule.<\/p>\n >> Agricultural water customers are required to reduce water consumption by 20%.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Department will continue to watch supply and demand, and the weather forecast to determine when the stage 2 water shortage can end or if a stage 3 water shortage must be declared,\u201d officials said in the news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maui County has declared a \u201cstage 2\u201d water shortage for West Maui, requiring an end to all nonessential…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,36821,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-227294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-maui","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205210380435139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}