83000 Hawai'i homes dispose of sewage in cesspools - The Garden Island

83,000 Hawai‘i homes dispose of sewage in cesspools - The Garden Island

83,000 Hawai‘i homes dispose of sewage in cesspools

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Shellie Habel, coastal geologist at the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, tests the salinity of water on a chronically flooded road in the Mapunapuna industrial area of Honolulu on Friday, May 19, 2023. With climate change, scientists say some feces-laced groundwater may come up through storm drains and the soil as rising sea levels lift the groundwater above it. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
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Jim King, CEO of Eljen Corporation, examines a septic tank installed to replace a cesspool in Waialua, Hawaii on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Hawaii has 83,000 of cesspools, more than any other U.S. state, and many of them are close to the shoreline. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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Jim King, CEO of Eljen Corporation, demonstrates how to install a septic tank and leach system to replace a cesspool at a home in Waialua, Hawaii on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Hawaii has 83,000 of cesspools, more than any other U.S. state, and many of them are close to the shoreline.(AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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FILE - This Jan. 26, 2015 photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources shows a partially exposed cinderblock cesspool pit with a lid on an eroding shoreline in Punaluu, Hawaii. Hawaii has 83,000 of cesspools, more than any other U.S. state. (Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)
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Contractors replace a cesspool with a septic tank and leach field system on Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Waialua, Hawaii. Rising seas are eroding Hawaii’s coast near homes with cesspools, pulling sewage out to sea. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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This photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, shows a home after it collapsed onto a beach on Feb. 28, 2022, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Rising seas and more intense storms are encroaching on coastal properties. Some coastal erosion removes sand surrounding cesspools and pulls sewage out to sea. (Dan Dennison/Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)