Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 35, Number 9, 1 September 2018 — E KALA MAI Water rights cases in East and West Maui [ARTICLE]

E KALA MAI Water rights cases in East and West Maui

The table of eontents and ajumpline in the August 2018 issue of Ka Wai Ola ineorreetly identified East Maui streams as Nā Wai Eha in an article on page 6. There are water rights cases in both East and West Maui; the standards established by the State Commission on Water Resource Management apply only to East Maui streams. Mahealani Wendt, a community advocate on Maui and former executive director of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, provided a table that helps distinguish between the East and West Maui stream systems and the legal cases that apply to them. ■

Plaintiffs/Parties Na Moku Aupuni o Ko'olau Kaulana o Na Wai Eha Hui; Beatrice Kekahuna, Marjorie Wallet, Lynn Scott; Maui Tomorrow Attorneys Native Hawaiian Legal Earthjustice Corporation; Isaac Hall Permittee(s) Alexander & Baldwin, Wailuku Water Hawaiian Cane & Sugar, Company East Maui Irrigation Wailuku Sugar Company Ditches constructed 1878 1882 Samuel Thomas Alexander Claus Spreckles Henry Perrine Baldwin Legal petitions filed 2001 2004 Amount diverted 450 million gallons/day 70 million gallons/day (in comparison, all of Oahu consumes 155 million gallons per day) Streams petitioned Nahiku Lease Area: Waihe'e River Makapipi Waiehu Stream Hanawi Wailuku River Kapaula Waikapu Stream Keanae Lease Area: Waiaaka Pa'akea Waiohue Kopiliula (Puaka'a tributary) East Waluaiki West Wailuaiki Wailuanui Kulani (aka Hamau) Waiokamilo Ohi'a (Waianu) Palauhulu Pi'ina'au Honomanu Lease Area: Nu'ailua Honomanu Punalau Ha'ipua'ena Huelo Lease Area: Puohokamoa Wahinepe'e Waikamoi (Alo tributary) Hanehoi Honopou