Capacities by Stakeholder Organization
Private Sector Participants
9 participants representing 8 private sector organizations working in the Central Oahu Watershed discussed the following climate-related capacities of their organizations.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Hawaiʻi Biological Survey	Climate Sciences	• GIS spatial modeling with both time scale data and spatial data.
Bishop Museum		• Develop 10m grid database for the whole state.
www.bishopmuseum.org		• Synthesize detailed data from specific watersheds (including size, slope, underlying geology, land cover type, etc.) with rainfall, fog drop, etc. to predict amount, duration, and timing of water availability in multiple systems for statewide scale application.
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 847-3511
	Policy/Planning	• Conduct statewide planning of surface water resources, including predicting the quantity and quality of  water in all streams and watersheds statewide.
		• Assess water needs and availability for human populations.
	Environmental Impact	• Assess water needs and availability of animal habitats.
		• Assess effect of fresh water on nearshore environments in estuaries and other nearshore systems.
		• Assess future water use scenarios for amount of return to natural environment.
		• Minimize environmental impact of water use.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Castle & Cooke, Hawaiʻi	Development	• Conduct development planning, including rezoning from agriculture to urban settings.
www.castlecookehawaii.com
680 Iwilei Road, 5th Floor	Infrastructure	• Develop new potable water wells, including drilling, cleaning out pesticides with carbon filters, transmission, and off-site drainage basins.
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 548-4811
		• Develop sewer lines (e.g., for Waipahu Pump Station).
		• Develop green infrastructure, e.g., smart irrigation; storm water runoff infiltration systems; planting drought-tolerant species.
	Policy/Planning	• Address drainage requirements.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Kamehameha Schools	Environmental Management	• Manage agrictulture, conservation, and preservation of lands held under the Kamehameha schools.
Land Assets Division
http://www.ksbe.edu/land		• Daily and seasonal resource management (including overgrowth, flooding, invasives, etc.).
567 South King Street, Suite 200
Honolulu, HI 96813		• Increase commercially viable agricultural production.
(808) 534-8189	Cultural Protection	• Care for native species of plants, birds, etc., especially endangered.
		• Address right of entries and access issues with tenants and others on lands, including poaching and hunting issues.
	Planning	• Address water allotment and accessibility for lands.
		• Manage drought preparedness, e.g. maintaining existing sugar cane roads as firebreaks; increasing drought-resistant crops; exploring diversion, storage, and distribution water systems .
		• Manage long-term resource sustainability (e.g., food, energy, development).
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Hawaiian Electric Company	Development/Infrastructure	• Maintain and develop facility locations, including water access at site.
http://www.heco.com/portal/site/heco		• Develop the clean energy initiatives; reach 40% renewable energy by 2050; reduce fossil fuels; reduce all imported fuels.
PO Box 250
Honolulu, HI 96840-0001		• Reduce potable water needs for power plant cooling systems, including increasing use of brackish water or RO (reverse osmosis) water.
(808) 543-7760
	Community Partnerships	• Partner with industries (e.g., with the agricultural industry to switch to locally based biomass or biofuels).
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Ewa Beach Limu Project	Environmental Management	• Protect beach, reef, and marine resources from storm water drain.
http://www.wahipana.org/ewalimu		• Assess run off.
(808) 225-4933		• Protect the ocean from invasive species.
		• Ensure fresh water is adequate to grow limu.
	Cultural Promotion	• Provide cultural learning opportunities for Hawaiian kids.
	Cultural Protection	• Prevent loss of cultural practices.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Sumida Farms Inc.	Environmental Management	• Find sufficient water for crop demands (e.g., prevent/manage disruption to water supply from Waiahole Ditch system or spring water to maintain irrigation system).
98-160 Kamehameha Highway
Aiea, HI 96701	Development/Infrastructure
(808) 488-4517		• Calculate water needs and ability to irrigate, based on evapotranspiration and other factors.
Pioneer Hi-Bred		• Manage crop water use in varying conditions (e.g., according to high temperatures and strong winds).
www.pioneer.com
67-172 Farrington Highway
Waialua, HI 96791
(808) 637-0100
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Kapolei Property Development	Policy/Planning	• Conduct intentional design of infrastructure and planning for City of Kapolei (non-municipal body), including land entitlement, land parcel subdivision, master planning, and selling/exchanging parcels of land.
www.kapolei.com
1001 Kamokila Boulevard, #250
Kapolei, HI 96707	Development/Infrastructure	• Water and sewer infrastructure, and some roads.
(808) 674-3541	Environmental Management	• Water allocation (coordinate with BWS).
		• Resource conservation (e.g., experimental desalination).
Federal Government Participants
7 participants representing 5 private sector organizations working in the Central Oahu Watershed discussed the following climate-related capacities of their organizations.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
US Army Garrison	Infrastructure	• Address public works (e.g., building repairs, road maintenance, utilities, drinking water production wells and distribution systems) including production, maintanence and repair of these systems.
Directorate of Public Works
Environmental Division
www.garrison.hawaii.army.mil/sustainability/Environmental.aspx		• Operate water plant independently of Board of Water Supply.
948 Santos Dumont Avenue	Policy	• Maintain pumpage and withdrawal rates within the allowable limit set by Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Wheeler Army Airfield
Building 105		• Meet the EPA and Health Department safe drinking water requirments and regulations.
Schofield Barracks, HI 96857-5013
(808) 656-5013	Environmental Management	• Maintain the Installation Restoration Program (army equivalent of a Superfund site).
		• Address chloride content increases from brackish water intrusion.
		• Water conservation.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
US Army Garrison	Infrastructure	• Repair breaks, proactively search for and fix leaks.
Directorate of Public Works		• Address efficiencies in the water system, planning and programming projects.
Utilities Division	Development
http://www.garrison.hawaii.army.mil/dpw/default.htm		• Improve the water system or maintain it at its current level when new housing projects are built.
(808) 656-3155/3160
	Environmental Management	• Developing and working with a more complex irrigation system tied to rainfall that only waters when needed.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
US Army Corps of Engineers	Infrastructure	• Determine regional water resources problems and action strategies, including agencies with an interest or responsibility, funds, etc.
Pacific Ocean Division
Civil & Public Works Branch	Environmental Management	• Assist with ecosystem restoration and reverse degradation (e.g., creating detention in wetlands, creating water bird habitat).
http://www.pod.usace.army.mil
Building 230	Planning	• Assist with drainage for large storm events, addressing both non-structural options (e.g., floodplain management or flood-proofing homes, preventing certain kinds of development) and structural options (e.g., channelizing flood waters away from structures, detaining waters in safe area until flood peak subsided).
Fort Shafter, HI 96858-5540
(808) 438-7009
		• Rehabilitate state irrigation infrastructure with Hawaiʻi Water Management.
		• Design harbors for storms, waves, sea level rise, etc.
	Policy	• Develop USACE model for fair allocations of the total maximum daily load (TMDLs), by land-use area (e.g., urban, less urban, industrial, recreational).
		• Help the Department of Environmental Services justify to decision makers the applicability of the TMDLs.
		• Gather data for Congress, following their prescribed process.
		• Follow systemic approach to evaluating problems (e.g., engage with local governments for navigation, flood risk management, storm damage reducation, and ecosystem restoration).
		• Conduct uncertainty analyses.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Naval Facilities Engineering	Infrastructure	• Provide potable water for the Pearl Harbor Complex, including all operational maintenance, environmental compliance, flushing, repair work, and chlorine/flouride additions.
Command, Hawaiʻi (NAVFAC)
https://portal.navfac.navy.mil
400 Marshall Road	Policy/Planning	• Reduce water use by incentivizing water reduction, irrigation controls, and improving infrastructure to decrease waste.
Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-3139
(808) 471-3926	Environmental Management	• Manage cooling degree days (monitor temperature fluctuations and cooling needed for a space).
		• Manage water use during drought and higher precipitation situations.
		• Ensure that water provided meets health requirements; test for contaminants.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
United States Department of	Education/Outreach	• Partner with Conservation Districts and others to provide private landowners with technical and some cost-share assistance to protect, enhance, and preserve soil, water, air, plants, and animals using sound science and expertise.
Agriculture
Natural Resources and Conservation
Services
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov	Environmental Management	• Manage Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) to inform producers and help them mitigate air quality for changing environmental conditions.
Aiea Service Center
RL Cushing Building
33-193 Aiea Heights Drive	Policy	• Interpret and analyze natural resource data and model results to inform decision makers and facilitate policy development (e.g., assessments include climate assessments and drought monitoring, water supply forecasts, soil survey interpretations, etc.).
Aiea, HI 96701
(808) 483-8600
	Climate Sciences	• Assess which conservation strategies are best suited to future climate conditions.
		• Assess which plants and animals best suited to future climate conditions.
		• Assess which alternative energy sources and uses are best suited under future climate conditions.
	Planning/Infrastructure	• Strategically emphasize integrating energy concerns into planning assistance and programs.
		• Provide information to encourage producers to use plants better suited to local soil and climate conditions to reduce energy inputs.
State Government Participants
4 participants representing 4 private sector organizations working in the Central Oahu Watershed discussed the following climate-related capacities of their organizations.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture	Environmental Management	• Manage water conservation efforts (e.g., DOA irrigation systems and reservoirs).
Agricultural Resource Management
http://hawaii.gov/hdoa/arm/arm	Cultural Protections	• Manage multiple water needs and considerations (e.g., Native Hawaiian and environmental groups, expense of digging versus pumping wells, open air versus pipes, stream divergence, wells, rainfall, reservoirs, etc.).
1428 King Street
Honolulu, HI 96814-2512	Planning
(808) 973-9473
	Policy	• Issue conservation notices to farmers based on water level in the reservoir, including voluntary and mandatory restrictions.
	Infrastructure	• Improve efficiency of the plantation-era irrigation systems.
		• Work with the community to look at alternatives if inadequate water is available long-term (e.g., drill new wells, pump or divert streams).
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
State Department of Health	Policy	• Regulate purveyors of drinking water (e.g., counties and private drinking water suppliers) to maintain water quality standards and protections.
Environmental Health Administration
http://hawaii.gov/health/about/admin/enviro.html
1250 Punchbowl Street		• Control water pollution to legal standards.
Honolulu, HI 96813	Planning	• Administer permits (for storm water systems, sewage treatment plants, landfills, power plants, etc.) to limit pollution to water or air.
(808) 586-4424
		• Handle EPA delegated programs (e.g., clean air, water, waste, etc.) under the Environmental Management Division.
	Outreach	• Conduct consumer confidence reports.
	Environmental Management	• Handle environmental cleanups, toxicology, oil spills, and other emergency response activities under the Hazard Evaluation Emergency Response Office.
		• Maintain water quality on the shoreline.
	Infrastructure	• Maintain sanitation and regulate injection wells, sewage treatment, and landfills.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Department of Land and Natural	Environmental Management	• Remove feral ungulates and control habitat altering weeds to protect the most important recharge areas.
Resources
Division of Forestry and Wildlife		• Promote biodiversity.
Watershed Partnership Program		• Manage high elevation areas.
http://hawaii.gov/dlnr.dofaw/wpp		• Manage high rainfall areas.
1151 Punchbowl Street, Room 325	Policy/Planning	• Manage compliance, environmental assessments, conservation, district use permits, and planning assessments with partnerships.
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 587-0166	Infrastructure	• Determine where to put fence line.
		• Inspect and maintain fences.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Department of Land and Natural	Environmental Management	• Create a model to recommend legal in-stream flow standards for a set of streams.
Resources
http://hawaii.gov/dlnr		• Assess the ability of in-stream water to maintain, diminish, or benefit the critical habitat for endangered species (e.g., the marginal benefit of each additional unit of water to maintaining an ecosystem).
Kalanimoku Building
1151 Punchbowl Street
Honolulu, HI 96813		• Determine restoration methods.
(808) 587-0400	Infrastructure	• Maintain a rainfall atlas for Hawaiʻi.
		• Manage existing and planned water treatment facilities.
		• Determine options for building infrastructure to support local food growing.
	Policy/Planning	• Update the county mitigation needs and adaptive strategies.
		• Follow sequential rules: Do no harm, create no further degradation, ensure fair distribution, fair process, pertinent rights, and maintain water-use permit requirements.
		• Develop a state water conservation plan based on different soil types.
County and City Government Participants
2 participants representing 2 private sector organizations working in the Central Oahu Watershed discussed the following climate-related capacities of their organizations.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Mililani/Waipio/Melemanu	Policy/Planning	• Address water availability for communities, including issues with overpumping, desalination, and water quality in aquifer.
Neighborhood Board
http://www1.honolulu.gov/nco/nb25/index.htm		• Make recommendations to neighborhood boards about public policy, issues in public interest, etc.
	Education/Outreach
		• Disseminate information to the community through their website.
		• Conduct outreach through meetings, presentations, etc.
	Capacity Keywords:	Organization Capacities:
Dept. of Planning and Permitting	Planning	• Conduct and manage land use decision-making.
Planning Division		• Conduct planning and zoning of county development.
City and County of Honolulu	Policy	• Operate the State Land Use Commission.
http://www.honoluludpp.org/planning/		• Revise the County General Plan (including potential additions of sustainability and climate change language to very basic policies in the general plan).
650 South King Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 768-6743	Outreach	• Assist the Board of Water Supply  (e.g., with the Oahu Water Management Plan, technical reference documents, and watershed management plans through the eight county development plan areas).
		• Review drafts prepared by consultants and provide input.
	Environmental Management	• Manage storm water issues.
		• Regulate on-site drainage for major projects, including storm drainage standards, permits for construction, de-watering, and permits for connection to the city's storm sewer system under the Site Development Division.