Letter: Find, study underground potable water sources

On Aug. 19, Hawaii Tribune-Herald reporter Daniel Farr described the ongoing University of Hawaii geophysical research in the waters off the Kona coast, indicating that a significant fresh water aquifer exists at depth (“UH researchers investigate below seafloor for fresh water,” Star-Advertiser). Notably absent from the article was an acknowledgment that deep fresh water in this area was confirmed over 20 years ago. During the 2001 drilling of a state Department of Land and Natural Resources deep monitoring well mauka of Kailua-Kona, deep fresh water was intersected, confined below the basal brackish/saltwater. Three additional monitoring wells drilled in the area also intersected deep confined fresh water.

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