Utilizing a Traditional Framework to Minimize Flooding in Maunalua Bay Watersheds, Hawai‘i

Recipient: Malama Maunalua

Grant Amount: $1,506,700 Matching Funds: $155,000 Total Project Amount: $1,661,700

This award will develop final plans utilizing ahupuaʻa, a land division roughly equivalent to a watershed, to address flooding and erosion risk in several watersheds of Maunalua Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. The project will use green infrastructure solutions to reduce runoff and adapt streams to mimic natural flow in order to reduce flooding and erosion.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s website.