Heavy Pesticide Usage in North-Central Oʻahu: Join Us on March 7th to Learn More
Wahiawā, Whitmore Village, and Waialua residents, please join us for a community meeting where we will be sharing our research on pesticide usage in the area and Hawaiʻi-wide.
Time:Friday, March 7th, 5:30-7 PM.
Location:Parish Hall,St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wahiawā
Dinner will be provided
Wahiawā, Whitmore Village, and Waialua are home to some of the heaviest use of pesticides in Hawaiʻi. These agrochemicals can migrate through the air, soil, and waterways –– and pose potential threats to public health and the environment.
Prior to 2019, communities affected by heavy pesticide use in Hawaiʻi were left in the dark about what they were exposed to. In 2018, HAPA, the Protect Our Keiki Coalition, and affected communities successfully advocated for Act 45. This bill now requires users of restricted use pesticides (RUPs), a highly hazardous pesticide unavailable to the general public, to report their usage. The State of Hawaiʻi’s Department of Agriculture released the first RUP report a year later.
Since then, HAPA and other members of the Protect Our Keiki Coalition have been working to analyze and sync the data into an online GIS map tool. This map tool will help communities learn about what RUPs they are being exposed to and their potential impacts.
More recently the Office of Public Health Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi has engaged in additional research on fumigant usage from 2020 and 2021.
To learn more about how this affects Central Oʻahu and what you can do about it, please join HAPA and the University of Hawaiʻi for a community meeting on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 5:30 PM-7:00 PM atSt. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wahiawā 96786.
