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Senate committees back University of Hawaii pilot to test decentralized wastewater technologies
Summary
Committees passed House Bill 736, House Draft 1, to fund a three-year testing pilot at the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to evaluate alternative wastewater systems and speed certification of new technologies.
The Senate Committee on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Environment voted to pass House Bill 736, House Draft 1, creating a three-year testing pilot at the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to evaluate new individual wastewater system technologies.
Drea (Drea) Wong, assistant professor at the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center, described the proposed center as an open testing platform where companies and researchers could install candidate systems that would be fed by a sewage pipeline and monitored by university staff. The center would collect samples, analyze results, and generate reports for the Department of Health to use for…
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