HECO annually conducts and reports results of a biological monitoring program for waters receiving effluent from the Kahe Generating Station, O'ahu, Hawai'i from 1992 to 1997 (NCEI Accession 9900021)
Since January 1, 1986, HECO has used adjusted intake water temperatures as the reference against which temperature elevations of the thermal effluent are measured. Intake temperatures are adjusted downward by 0.42 C to determine the reference temperature. Based on over 10 years of temperature records collected at an …