NPS Kaloko-Honokohau groundwater brochure

Kaloko-Honokohau groundwater brochure thumbnailA collaboration between the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Program, Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, on the big island of Hawai'i, and IAN has produced this brochure intended for the informed audience of local land use planners and government officials, as well as informed park visitors. The focus is on the fragile natural and cultural resources such as anchialine pools, fishponds, and the nearshore marine areas that are reliant, to varying degrees, on the groundwater that filters through the park. Increasing withdrawal of groundwater by development wells upslope may cause changes to freshwater flow, with potential impacts upon these fragile ecosystems.