The common particular person flushes their bathroom 5 instances per day. However if you flush, are you aware the place your wastewater goes and what impacts it has on the seashores and coastal waters?
To assist present solutions, Maui Nui Marine Useful resource Council is internet hosting a particular “Know Your Ocean Speaker Sequence” presentation on Zoom on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. that includes Travis Liggett, who created the brand new FlushAware app.
To register for the presentation, go to https://bit.ly/FlushAwareWebinar
Liggett, president of Reef Energy, developed the FlushAware on-line training system that informs customers concerning the remedy stage and vacation spot of their Maui Island disposal technique, whereas offering instruments for activism and bettering life downstream.
Throughout his presentation, Liggett will reveal how the brand new FlushAware demonstration web site works. It’s launching March 2 along side the presentation. He additionally will talk about options to Maui’s wastewater challenges, which he says will be discovered within the residing life help system of the ʻĀina.
“Native species reminiscent of stream limu, breadfruit and taro present solutions to our water waste woes,” he stated. “As an alternative of nearshore injection, municipal discharges in Maui will be polished with turf scrubbers to scale back nutrient air pollution utilizing native freshwater algae. The wastewater can then be 100% reused as irrigation of native meals agroforestry, pastureland and vetiver slope stabilization plantings to scale back sediment transport potential from mauka lands.”
Liggett graduated from College of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science diploma in Mechanical Engineering with a give attention to design in 1998, and from the College of Colorado at Boulder with a Grasp of Science diploma in Aerospace Engineering with a give attention to life science in 2003.
In 2001, Liggett began work as a Analysis Assistant at BioServe House Applied sciences, a NASA Business House Heart situated at CU Boulder, and continued his tenure working for the Company as a Flight Programs Engineer for the House Station Organic Analysis Challenge beginning in 2003, then as an Aerospace Analysis Engineer specializing in practical prototype growth of recent life science applied sciences from 2005 – 2010 at NASA Ames Analysis Heart in Moffett Discipline, situated in California’s Silicon Valley.
On Maui, he has managed algae progress operations at Maui Tropical Algae Farm, and served as Principal Engineer for Water High quality Consulting, Inc., the place he carried out core duties together with work on the Maui Ocean Heart’s 2018 Nationwide Pollutant Discharge Elimination System allow software.
Liggett based the small enterprise Reef Energy LLC in 2018 with the target of bringing to Maui a pure regenerative reuse wastewater nutrient sprucing system referred to as a turf scrubber rising native Hawaiian stream limu (freshwater macroalgae), coupled with native meals agroforest irrigation for disposal, as an alternative of nearshore injection wells.
“Wastewater has a big affect on Maui’s coral reefs and nearshore ocean water high quality, whether or not you reside in Kula or Kihei,” stated Mike Fogarty, Govt Director of Maui Nui Marine Useful resource Council. “The FlushAware App will contribute to our neighborhood’s rising consciousness of the impacts of each flush – step one to find a solution to the query of the best way to handle our wastewater to guard our reefs and the ocean waters that encompass our shores.”
The Know Your Ocean Speaker Sequence is hosted by Maui Nui Marine Useful resource Council on the primary Wednesday of every month and is funded by the County of Maui Workplace of Local weather Change, Resiliency and Sustainability and donations from people and companies locally. To be taught extra, go to www.mauireefs.org.