Education - Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs)

Overflows and spills from sewer lines onto our roadways and into our streams and oceans spoil our beautiful Hawaiian environment and can endanger public health. Read more on how you can help prevent overflows and spills from occurring.

 


TELEVISION PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (PSAs) CONCERNING SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS (SSOs)



The following 30-second public service announcement (PSA) videos were recently completed with funding jointly provided by a Federal Clean Water Act Section 319(h) grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH), Clean Water Branch, and Learning Education Technology.  These videos are intended to educate the public about the problem of sanitary sewer overflows, which are oftentimes caused by disposal of inappropriate objects into the sewer system.  Additional funding was provided by the City & County of Honolulu and the McInerny Foundation.  Technical assistance was provided by the Hawai‘i Water Environment Association (HWEA).

To view these public service announcements, you must have a video player installed on your computer.  Two common players are Windows Media Player or Apple's Quicktime software, both of which are available for freeClick here to get Windows Media Player, or click here to get Apple's Quicktime viewer.  Once the program file is downloaded to your computer, you must double click on the file to initiate the installation process.

Please note that these files are rather large (approximately 2 megabytes each), so viewing them over a dialup connection may take a while.  As an alternative to viewing these files online, you can also save these files to your hard drive by right-clicking on the links and selecting either "save target as" (in Internet Explorer) or "save link as" (in Netscape Navigator).
 

PSA No. 1 PSA No. 1 (Revised version)
Sam Choy and Forte'
(2.6 MB)
PSA No. 2 PSA No. 2 (Revised version)
Karen Keawehawai‘i
(2.7 MB)
PSA No. 3 PSA No. 3 (Original version)
Kealii Reichel and Robi Kahakalau
(2.3 MB)

 


Last Updated: December 13, 2007