The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has entered into an Administrative Order on Consent with the City and County of Honolulu to ensure pollutant discharge requirements are met at the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant.
This order follows a previous AOC that was entered into December 2022 between the EPA and CCH and is necessitated by the fact that the plant has continued to exceed National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System effluent limits for bacteria.
Based upon condition assessments, maintenance evaluations, and additional monitoring requirements of the previous order, EPA is requiring the facility to install and operate new disinfection treatment technology and perform major repairs to the
