Welcome From the President
Aloha!
I am pleased to welcome you to the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative.
As a fourth-generation farmer on Kauai, I understand your need for a reliable
and inexpensive source of water for your farm. Our board of directors,
drawn from our local Kapaa community, has dedicated the last year to forming
this water cooperative, securing state permits for the system and pursuing
temporary subsidiary funding from the government for operations and maintenance
as well as long-term funding for capital improvement projects. With your
cooperation and advice, we believe we can preserve our Kapaa system for
this and each succeeding generation of Kauai's farmers.
Mahalo Nui Loa
Jerry Ornellas
Meet Your Field Manager
Many
of you may already know our Field Manager, Les Milnes, horseman/rancher,
architectural design and building consultant and former County Planning
Department inspector. He'll be overseeing the day-to-day operations of
the system, supervising the ditch work crews, fielding your requests and
seeing to it that water flows reliably to all users. Phone him at 821-2948
any time to report on the system or make a request.
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