A big thank you to Councilmember Elle Cochran who got money in the budget to start the planning process to re-use rather than inject sewage into the shoreline wells. Injecting partially treated sewage into these wells, simply pushes the sewage into the ocean where we paddlers get MRSA (antibiotic-resistant staph infections)
Elle Cochran is a SUP and surfer and knows first hand how important it is to re-use rather than inject wastewater.
You may know Tim Lara as a paddler for Hawaiian Canoe Club. Or you may know him for his work on fighting injection wells for Surfrider Foundation but there's another side of him you may not know - His business, Hawaiian Paddle Sports, which takes people out in kayaks, outrigger canoes or SUP. If you have friends visiting Maui, hook them up with Tim's company for a real whale watching adventure. Hele on over to HawaiianPaddleSports.com to see what he offers.
Stop Cruise Ship Pollution!
The Pump Don't Dump project has been a great success with Tour Boats.
But the cruise ships are spewing sewage and garbage into our waters.
They don't carry 50 people - They carry 3000 - all flushing their toilets into our ocean!
This disgusting effluent is washing onto our beaches.
If you want to help with lobbying and picketing to get these floating cities to:
pump their sewage
quit throwing their garbage into the ocean
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Deny docking to any cruise ship that dumps
Picket cruise ship docks letting their customers know that the ships dump
It is our position that the cruise ships need to pay for the pumping facilities and onshore treatment of their garbage and effluent. The County of Maui is already having to deal with the extra traffic they've generated since increasing their visits 6-fold (and now they want to triple the number of ships in at one time). We get no tax dollars from their operations, yet Maui bears the cost in terms of increased freight charges, mind-numbing gridlock and disgusting pollution of our oceans and beaches.
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Save Paddling in Kahului Harbor
See what's up at SaveKahuluiHarbor.com. Find out about the impacts of Cruise Ships, the Superferry on our State.
Latest news: County of Maui has joined the lawsuit for better Kahului Harbor Planning.
Cruise ships hogging our pier! 43% of increased dock space for the next 10 years is going to NCL - that's more than all our freight carriers combined. Our freighters will be forced to wait offshore while NCL's giant floating hotels (who don't pay any transient taxes to us, whose pitifully small wharfage fees don't cover the expenses of docking) will be hogging the piers for 35 hours at a time SIX (6) days a week.
Maui Groups asking the courts to make Superferry do an EIS so they can tell us what their solutions to the Pu'unene/Ka'ahumanu traffic, Young Brothers and Canoe clubs have been turned down. Superferry CEO, Garibaldi, claims that they'll come up with solutions later. Since the ferry is slated for operation in a fewmonths, this claim seems a bit, um... optimistic.
What you can do: Write or email your legislators and tell them we need a policy that puts freight before cruise ships. Ask them to move the Superferry to the cruise ship berth and tell the cruise ships they have to drop off their passengers and then make room for the Superferry. Share, you guys! Don't hog Pier 1!
See Dr. Lee Tepley's Moonlight Productions. Nice photos and he's also got a good site on the SuperFerry.
Rules for Kahului Harbor
We can no longer go in the inner harbor where the boats dock even when there are no boats there. ($25,000 fine). And we must stay at least 100 yards away from all cruise ships, fuel barges and military ships. ($25,000 fine). We cannot go east of the line which extends from the small green house on the pier closest to the canoe hales (Pier 2) to the green buoy at the mouth of the harbor ($25,000 fine). We must be completely out of the turning basin (e.g. on the beach or wall side of the red buoys) whenever a ship/barge is entering or leaving the harbor.
The harbors division is faxing or emailing us the barge schedule and has made available the cruise ship schedules so that we will not be caught in the turning basin when a ship is moving. These schedules are posted here. Apparently some hotdoggers on kayaks or OC-1's were trying to race the barge and got us all in trouble. The Harbor master is doing his best to work with us and still keep the Feds happy, so it is respectfully requested that everyone do their best not to cause incidents with the ships.
In the event that you find yourself at the mouth of the harbor when a ship is unexpectedly entering or leaving, safety is your highest concern. Do not try to outrun or cross in front of a ship -- they simply cannot manoever or stop fast enough. In this case duck behind the green buoy and hug the wall to the east of it, and hope that the Coast Guard is merciful to you for breaking the security zone.
Clubs - let the paddlers know what's up. Email the webmaster with your info on practice times, fundraisers, contact info, race dates etc. If you would like a free club page designed and kept updated for your club contact the webmaster.
Paddlers - looking for just one more person to make a full crew? Post on our hookup page. Also check out the buy/sell page. It's free to list for individuals.