WRRCSR No.10:05:90 Urbanization, Land-Use Planning, and Groundwater Management in Central Oahu, Hawaii

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1990-10
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Ridgley, Mark A.
Giambelluca, Thomas W.
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Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii
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In the Hawaiian Islands, planners and public officials have decided recently to raise the permissible level of urban development in central Oahu. The decision is opposed by many on the grounds that it threatens agricultural land as well as the sustainability of aquifers. A two-part procedure is presented for exploring the impact of such development and designing urban-expansion patterns that minimize them. First, a water-balance simulation model is used to calculate groundwater recharge as it varies with land use and location within the area. The difference between recharge and withdrawal is computed, and any changes are then estimated for different land uses. Second, this information is incorporated into multiobjective programming models with objectives related to agricultural land retention, groundwater balance, and residential population growth. The models generate alternative land-use expansion plans and show the tradeoffs among the objectives. The consideration of slightly suboptimal (dominated) solutions allows a significant expansion in the range of such alternatives. The results suggest that if future agricultural development does not occur on currently nonagricultural land, then both agricultural land and groundwater sustainability will suffer significant adverse effects under the new population limits.
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urban hydrology, groundwater management, urbanization, land use, groundwater recharge, hydrologic budget, multiobjective planning, optimization, simulation, population density, agriculture, groundwater sustainability, land-use conversion, agricultural land, population limits, Oahu, General Plan, central Oahu, Hawaii, Groundwater recharge -- Hawaii -- Oahu., Land use -- Planning -- Hawaii -- Oahu., Urbanization -- Hawaii -- Oahu., Water balance (Hydrology) -- Hawaii -- Oahu., Water resources development -- Hawaii -- Oahu., Water-supply, Agricultural -- Hawaii -- Oahu.
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Ridgley MA, Giambelluca TW. 1990. Urbanization, lang-use planning, and groundwater management in central Oahu, Hawaii. Honolulu (HI): Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii. WRRC special report, 10:05:90.
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viii + 30 pages
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