Why not install your own well?

[Fishboy]

Thanks to all of you who responded. I really appreciate the information that the freshwater lens is thinner near the ocean. Given that HPP is close to the ocean, relative to the geographic center of the island, it's a good bet that the aquifer in that area isn't that deep.

Subjects like this make my thoughts and imagination as a biologist take off. My thought is that microbes in the island underground ecosystem easily handle the infusion of wastes from the terrestrial ecosystem. That ecosystem has adopted over the eons to handle a relatively uniform distribution of wastes. Human populations tend to concentrate themselves, as in the case of subdivisions. By concentrating the source of wastes and depositing them in cesspools (no treatment), we tend to soil our subterranean nest.

I may be completely off base with this scenario, but I agree with Rob that as people move into the HPP subdivision and install cesspools the quality of the water table is likely to suffer. Our property in Discovery Harbour has county water; if it didn't, I'd most likely go with catchment.

Mahalo nui loa,
Brian and Mary
Lynnwood, WA\Discovery Harbour