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Experts detail 'huge' cost of converting Hawaii's cesspools during legislative hearing

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A years-old rule outlawing cesspools across the state doesn't take effect for decades -- but experts say work needs to start soon.

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- After state legislators passed a law in 2018 requiring property owners to convert their cesspools by 2050, a working group of experts has been evaluating how affordable the transition would be. 

The total estimated cost of modernizing the roughly 88,000 cesspools across the state is $2 billion, according to members of the Cesspool Conversion Working Group.

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