The Citizens and Visitors of Maui, Hawaii are disgusted that current law allows the dumping of human waste in our precious ocean waters. Through the EPA, the State of Hawaii has the ability to designate our Whale Sanctuary Waters as no dump zones. Read #2 at
this link. The Hawaiian Legislature has already asked the EPA & Whale Sanctuary to prohibit sewage dumping in the Whale Sanctuary. the Legislature recently passed the Pump Don't Dump Resolution. Click here (
link to resolution) to read
HCR 58. Contact Linda Lingle at (808-586-0034 or
click here for an email form to ask her to step up.
Please
HELP by contacting the Whale Sanctuary Manager Naomi McIntosh at 888-55 WHALE or via email at
hihumpbackwhale@noaa.gov, and request the sanctuary rules be changed. Please contact the EPA and request a NO discharge zone for Sanctuary waters via email at
Strauss.Alexis@epamail.epa.gov . In addition contact the Maui visitors Bureau at
info@visitmaui.com or 800 525-MAUI or Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau at
info@hvcb.org or (800) GO HAWAII (464-2924) telling them to step up to stop this practice.
