Hawaii has more than 400 public beaches stretching along nearly 300 miles of Pacific Ocean
coastline. Its beachwater monitoring program is administered by the Clean Water Branch of the
Hawaii Department of Health. Sampling practices, locations, standards, and notification protocols and practices are
uniform throughout the state. The monitoring season in this tropical state is year-round.
In February of 2009, the USS Port Royal was grounded on a reef off the Honolulu International Airport’s reef
runway. Upon investigation, the beach program learned that the Port Royal had discharged sewage while grounded
without notifying the state, and that Navy ships may be discharging sewage to
Hawaiian waters on a regular basis without notification.
When beachwater samples are found to exceed standards, read more http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/sumhaw.pdf
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