PacIOOS Nearshore Sensor Clean Water Branch 002: Kawaikui Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii

The nearshore sensors are part of the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) and are designed to measure a variety of ocean parameters at fixed points. nss_cwb_002 was located approximately 350 m south/southwest of Kawaikui Beach Park in Maunalua Bay on the South Shore of Oahu in the State of Hawaii for the Department of Health (DOH) Clean Water Branch (CWB). The sensor package was mounted on a cement block at about 1.5 meters depth.

PacIOOS nearshore sensors monitor coastal water conditions to help provide early indications of potentially polluted run-off from storm drainage, sewage spills, and soil erosion from land-based waterways such as streams and other outflows that lead directly into the ocean.