LIHUE — The Kauai Department of Water will hold a community outreach meeting next month to discuss its newly-named “Water Plan 2020 Kahili Horizontal Directional Drilled Well” project. The meeting is from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 27 in the
LIHUE — The Kauai Department of Water will hold a community outreach meeting next month to discuss its newly-named “Water Plan 2020 Kahili Horizontal Directional Drilled Well” project.
The meeting is from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 27 in the Kapaa Middle School dining room.
In addition to receiving public comments, the DOW will present the project’s Cost-Saving Analysis, the result of a two-month long economic feasibility study.
The 28-page report, released last month and prepared by Plasch Econ Pacific LLC, “evaluates the costs of various water-source alternatives based on component costs and other information assembled by Oceanit and the Mears Group Inc,” according to a DOW release.
Those alternatives include continuing to supply water from the current water-supply system, with no significant changes or upgrades, modifying the Waiahi Water Treatment Plant by adding a solar farm and related improvements to reduce energy costs and moving forward with the horizontal well.
Of the three alternatives, the report found that the well project would be the least expensive. The DOW has estimated it would cost around $60 million.
