Hawaii SB501 requires the Department of Health to prioritize funding for projects to eliminate cesspools.
Hawaii SB501 mandates the Department of Health to prioritize the use of water pollution control revolving fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect properties to sewerage systems. The bill aims to address the significant environmental and public health issues caused by the state's over eighty thousand cesspools, which discharge approximately fifty million gallons of wastewater into groundwater daily.
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