Let’s turn wastewater pollution into a water resource.

Join this community-driven effort to stop the use of the 24 injection wells in Māʻalaea Bay releasing pollutants into the ocean each day.

Māʻalaea Bay has suffered a “Catastrophic ecosystem loss” (DAR/DLNR). Coral reef ecosystem coverage is less than 5%, Limu have disappeared and water quality presents human health risks.

The Māʻalaea Regional Wastewater Reclamation System (MRWRS) will not only tackle wastewater contamination, but will mitigate wildfire risk by establishing a greenbelt fire break.

Further, the R1 water will be used as irrigation in place of the 6 million gallons of potable water currently used by Māʻalaea’s condos for landscaping per year and will support ecological restoration upland.

• The MRWRS is a community wastewater treatment facility that will discontinue the use of the injection wells.
• It will reclaim the water and produce the highest level of recycled water for reuse.
• The state of the art technology will go beyond R1 requirements by treating nutrients, PFAS, and emerging contaminants which most wastewater treatment plants do not.
• It will establish a greenbelt firebreak that includes native and functional plant species to protect the community from wildfires.