Pursuant to Chapter 14.06A, Maui County Code, the Department of Water Supply of the County of Maui hereby provides notice of a Stage 2 water shortage for water consumers in the West Maui service area. <\/p>\n
The West Maui service area includes Lahaina, K\u0101\u02bbanapali, Kahana, M\u0101hinahina, N\u0101pili-Honok\u014dwai, and Honok\u014dhau. West Maui is experiencing continued dry weather and lack of rainfall. Therefore, the existing water shortage is being upgraded to a Stage 2 for West Maui until water source levels are adequate to meet demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Director of Water Supply, with the approval of the Mayor, is authorized to declare a water shortage whenever the water supply becomes inadequate in any area in the County due to a period of drought, an infrastructure or mechanical malfunction, natural disaster, or other event causing a water shortage. \u00a0A Stage 2 water shortage exists if the Director determines that anticipated water demand in an area is projected to exceed available water supply by 16-30%. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Currently, Honok\u014dhau Stream flow is low, the inflow to M\u0101hinahina Water Treatment Facility is zero, and the US drought monitor forecast of D-2 severe drought conditions all support the decision to upgrade to a Stage 2 Water Shortage for West Maui. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
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When a water shortage is declared, the Director may apply schedules, restrictions, or measures as follows: \u00a0<\/p>\n
Prohibit water usage during certain hours or days of the week; <\/p>\n
Prohibit the use of water for irrigation, lawns, personal washing of vehicles, or other nonessential activities; <\/p>\n
Prohibit the use of temporary construction meters; and <\/p>\n
Institute water shortage rates as set forth in the annual budget. <\/p>\n
\u00a0Failure of a water customer to comply with any mandated water restriction may result in penalties, including a fine of $500 for each violation and removal of the water meter for subsequent violations. \u00a0<\/p>\n
At this time, for all West Maui water consumers the following water use restrictions apply:<\/p>\n
All nonessential water use for commercial and industrial use should cease.<\/p>\n
Irrigation is allowed for no more than one day per week according to the following schedule:<\/p>\n
Wednesday for even residential addresses.<\/p>\n
Thursday for odd residential addresses.<\/p>\n
Friday for even commercial facilities and multifamily units.<\/p>\n
Saturday for even 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Parks, school grounds and recreation fields adhere to the one day a week irrigation schedule.<\/p>\n
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The Stage 1 water shortage notification was effective as of June 30, 2022, The Stage 2 water shortage is effective Sept. 4, 2025 and will remain until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Agricultural water customers are required to reduce water consumption by 20%. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The 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.<\/p>\n
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Please contact the Department Secretary at 808-270-7816 if further information is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pursuant to Chapter 14.06A, Maui County Code, the Department of Water Supply of the County of Maui hereby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15229,192,94105,94106,94107,94108,94109,94110,76037,94111,94112,79,94113,20432,94114],"class_list":["post-153297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-honokohau","tag-honokowai","tag-kahana","tag-kaanapali","tag-lahaina","tag-mahinahina","tag-maui-drought","tag-napili","tag-napili-honokowai","tag-science","tag-stage-2-water-shortage","tag-water-shortage","tag-west-maui-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}