Maui DWS Posts Water Quality Testing ResultsAugust 23, (evening) 2023

Maui DWS has posted results from their initial round of water system sampling on 8-14-23 HERE. Maui County has also issued a news release (sent to us over email)  and included the following information on detections:
“One sample in Lāhainā collected from Kaniau Road detected 0.7 parts per billion of benzene, a byproduct of wildfires…. A sample collected from the Upper Kula Treatment Plant detected the presence of toluene and xylenes at a level less than 0.5 parts per billion. The maximum contaminant level for toluene is 1,000 parts per billion and total xylene is 10,000 parts per billion”. The other 25 samples did not show presence of VOCs above the lab’s detection limits, though the lab did note trace amounts (an amount below the detection limit) of some compounds in some of the tests.