Maui County, HI Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Mandatory areas
- Central, South, and West Maui
- Exempt properties
- Single-family and duplex
- Connection deadline
- Within 1 year of service availability
- Late payment penalty
- 10% per annum on unpaid balance
- State standard deadline
- R-1 quality required by Jan 1, 2039
- Enforcing department
- Dept. of Environmental Management
- Rate appeal body
- Board of Variances and Appeals
Summary
Maui County requires improved commercial property in Central, South, and West Maui to connect to reclaimed water service where it is available, for irrigation on golf courses, landscaping, and agricultural uses. Single-family and duplex properties are exempt, and building a new irrigation system without connecting is unlawful.
This chapter requires improved commercial property to connect to available reclaimed water service for irrigation purposes, including golf courses, landscaping, and agricultural uses, except for properties used for single-family or duplex purposes. ... Any consumer or other person who desires to use the reclaimed water service of the county shall file a written application with the director. ... An irrigation system to be constructed on commercial property to which there exists available reclaimed water service shall be connected to the available reclaimed water service upon construction of the irrigation system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and rules relating thereto. It is unlawful for any person to construct on any improved commercial property an irrigation system, to which available reclaimed water service exists, which does not use reclaimed water.
Full Breakdown
020. The chapter applies for mandatory irrigation purposes in the geographic areas defined as Central Maui, South Maui, and West Maui in the county's water reuse feasibility studies, and elsewhere for construction and other purposes wherever the county makes fill stations available. 050. 050. 070), both set in the annual budget, though no connection fee applies for two years after the rate-setting ordinance takes effect. 080). 520 procedures. 020(D).
Violations & Fines
Constructing a new irrigation system on improved commercial property that has available reclaimed water service, without using that reclaimed water, is expressly declared unlawful under § 20.30.050(C). Unpaid reclaimed water bills draw a 10 percent per annum penalty added to the bimonthly bill under § 20.30.090. The department may disconnect a consumer's reclaimed water meter whenever the director determines the consumer's reuse irrigation system endangers public health, safety, or welfare, and a reclaimed water meter is also disconnected automatically if the property's potable meter is removed for nonpayment (§ 20.30.100).
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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