[CPEO-BIF] "Soil sampling at former Kekaha Sugar Mill, " Kaua'i, Hawai'i

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soil sampling at former Kekaha Sugar Mill Lot B will determine if contaminants exist

Kaua’i Now
April 20, 2025 

Soil sampling at former Kekaha Sugar Mill Lot B will determine if contaminants exist

Lot B property is bounded by Kekaha Road to the north, Hale Lio Street to the east, Kopa‘a Street to the south and the former sugar mill’s Lot A.

The county is conducting the sampling — with permission from property owner Aloun Farms — to determine whether the property’s soil is contaminated before it moves forward with any future economic development of the property.

It is funded through a $300,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which was awarded to the county for the purpose of assessing and evaluating potentially contaminated properties, or “brownfields,” in Kekaha.


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For the entire article, see
https://kauainownews.com/2025/04/20/soil-sampling-at-abandonded-kekaha-sugar-mill-will-determine-if-contaminants-exist/

For my 2011 report on this site, see
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/KekahaLegacy.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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