Visitors to the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) can now receive hourly updates on the direction and speed of ocean surface currents in Hilo Bay. As noted by administrators of the ...

The water quality of Hilo Bay ... in the area, all on lava rock, which is very porous and permeable.” Wiegner said sewage from a Keaukaha cesspool can trickle out into the bay within hours ...

HILO A state and federal study to determine whether the Hilo Bay breakwater should be modified likely will begin early next year. The nearly 2-mile-long breakwater was built by the U.S. Army ...

Any plan to improve water quality within Hilo Bay will probably not involve changes to the Hilo Bay Breakwater. One of those options, as suggested in a 2009 study by the U.S. Army Corps of ...