Application for Water Use Permit
Waiahole Ditch System Ground Water Management Area, Oahu

The following application for water use permit has been received by the Commission on Water Resource Management and is hereby made public in accordance with Section 13-171, Hawaii Administrative Rules, “Designation and Regulation of Water Management Areas.”

WUPA No. 875 Waiahole Ditch System

Applicant: Syngenta Hawaii LLC
P.O. Box 823
Kekaha, HI 96752

Date Application Filed as Complete: August 25, 2009
Quantity Requested: 1.284 million gallons per day
Existing/New Use: New Irrigation of 849 acres of seed corn, soy, and livestock grazing
Place of Water Use: Tax Map Key: 9-2-004: 001, 003, 005, 006
Water Sources & Locations: Waiawa Dev Tunnel (Well No. 2657-05 at TMK 9- 6-005:003) Waiahole Main (Well No. 2853-01 at TMK 4-8-013:001)
Uwau Dev Tunnel (Well No. 2953-01 at TMK 4-8- 014:003)
Waikane Dev Tunnel #2 (Well No. 2953-02 at TMK 4-8-014:005)
Uwau Tunnel Ext (Well No. 2953-03 at TMK 9-5- 004:001)
Waikane Dev Tunnel #1 (Well No. 3053-01 at TMK 4-8-014:005)
Kahana Dev Tunnel (Well No. 3154-01 at TMK 5- 2-001:001)

Source Landowners: Waiawa Dev Tunnel (Well No. 2657-05), Uwau Dev Tunnel (Well No. 2953-01), Waikane Dev Tunnel #2 (Well No. 2953-02), Uwau Tunnel Extension (Well No. 2953-03), and Waikane Dev Tunnel #1 (Well No. 3053-01):

State of Hawaii
Agribusiness Development Corporation
235 S. Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813

Waiahole Main (Well No. 2853-01) and Kahana Dev Tunnel (Well No. 3154-01):

State of Hawaii
Department of Land and Natural Resources
1150 Punchbowl Street, Rm. 130
Honolulu, HI 96813

Written objections or comments on the above application may be filed by any person who has property interest in any land within the hydrologic unit of the source of water supply, any person who will be directly and immediately affected by the proposed water use, or any other interested person. Written objections shall: (1) state property or other interest in the matter (provide TMK information); (2) set forth questions of procedure, fact, law, or policy, to which objections are taken; and (3) state all grounds for objections to the proposed permit. Written objections must be received by October 2, 2009. Objections must be sent to 1) the Commission on Water Resource Management, P.O. Box 621, Honolulu, Hawaii 96809 and 2) the applicant at the above address.

COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

KEN C. KAWAHARA, P.E., Deputy Director for
LAURA H. THIELEN, Chairperson