Technical Memorandum Report No. 28
Hydrologic Balance in the Pearl Harbor Basin
Pedro Tenorio and Reginald H. F. Young
January 1971
ABSTRACT
Within the last year following the completion of Phase II reported in Water Resources Research Center Technical Report No. 33 (1969), additional significant changes in the pattern of land use in the Pearl Harbor-Waipahu study area have taken place. A summary of irrigated sugar cane field conversion into residential and industrial uses has already been presented for the year up to 1969. As noted in previous reports (Dale, 1967; WRRC Technical Report No. 33, 1969), because of the land use changes in the area, it is expected that parallel changes in the water quality of the ground water and overall ground-water hydrology will follow. In the memorandum report, an attempt will be made, based on previous and present findings, to predict the changes in the ground-water hydrology as a consequence of the accelerated rate of shift of agricultural lands to urban development.