New Summaries of County Water Test ResultsSeptember 7th, 2023

The county has been making good progress in testing the water systems for VOC’s. They are sharing results on a map HERE and are also posting all of the lab reports HERE. In order to help community members sort through this large amount of data more easily, volunteers have spent time to comb through and summarize the results. THIS spreadsheet was provided by Melissa, who is a Kula community member and THIS spreadsheet was compiled by Maggie, one of our wonderful UH student volunteers. I am not a public health expert, nor do I work for an agency that regulates drinking water safety, but my professional opinion as a research hydrologist is that I do not see anything concerning in these reports. However, this is also a small amount of data and we also know that this type of contamination can be hard to detect, necessitating widespread and repeated testing. (Please also note that the county reported a potential lab contamination incident that may explain the elevated dichloromethane levels found in some samples, and we believe this compound has not been associated with other wildfires in the past.).