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Pacific Islands Water-Resources Studies

The Pacific Islands Water Science Center conducts hydrologic studies that address a wide variety of water-resources issues, including water supply, groundwater contamination, nutrient loading in streams, effects of land use on water quality, and basic hydrologic data collection.

Hawaii

•  Hawaii Volcanic-Rock Aquifer Study--Groundwater Resources Program Regional Assessments
•  Groundwater Tracers to Evaluate Connection Between Inland and Coastal Groundwater Systems, Kona Area, Island of Hawaii
•  Effects of Groundwater Withdrawal, Injection, and Climate Change on Water Resources at Kaloko-Honokohau, Island of Hawaii
•  Groundwater Recharge and Availability in the Pearl Harbor Aquifer, Oahu
•  Reassessment of Groundwater Recharge for Central and West Maui
•  Groundwater Recharge and Availability in Eastern Molokai
•  Low-Flow Characteristics in Streams, Lahaina District, Maui
•  Groundwater Availability in the Haiku, Honopou, and Makawao Areas, Northeast Maui
•  Spatial Distribution of Groundwater Recharge on Oahu

Guam

•  Simulation of Surface Runoff, Fena Watershed, Guam
•  Groundwater Availability in Guam

Completed Studies (since 2008)

•  Surface-Water Availability, Anahola, Kauai
•  Using Invertebrate Assemblages to Create a Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity for Hawaiian Streams
•  Surface-Water Diversion System Seepage Reconnaissance Study, East Maui
•  Suspended-Sediment Monitoring, Waikele Watershed, Oahu
•  Groundwater Availability in the Lahaina District, Maui
•  Spatial Distribution of Groundwater Recharge on the Island of Hawaii
•  Potential Effects of Roadside Dry Wells on Groundwater Quality in the Island of Hawaii
•  Water Use of Wetland Kalo Cultivation in West Maui, Hawaii, 2010
•  Flood Frequency Estimates for the State of Hawaii (StreamStats)
•  Flow statistics for USGS stream-gaging stations operated in Hawaii from 1909-2005
•  Ecological Assessment of Wadeable Streams, Oahu
•  Stormwater Monitoring, Halawa Watershed, Island of Oahu
•  Selected Pesticides in Groundwater from the Pearl Harbor Aquifer, Oahu, Hawaii
•  Wastewater and Nutrient Source Tracking - A Reconnaissance Mapping Approach for Beach and Watershed Monitoring
•  Streamflow and Stream-Macrofauna Characteristics, Central Maui, Hawaii
•  Groundwater Availability in Central Maui, Hawaii
•  The Oahu National Water-Quality Assessment
•  Streamflow, Suspended-Sediment, and Erosion Monitoring, Kahoolawe
•  Groundwater monitoring, northern Guam Lens