HCC §10-22
Preparing the ground and handling removed vegetation
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗Before you place fill or stockpile dirt, you must clear the ground of plants and may need to cut benches if the public works director requires it. You cannot put fill over springs, marshes, or wet ground unless the director approves a soil report. Removed plants must be disposed of within three months, not dumped in streams.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Preparation of ground surface; vegetation
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Before placing fill or stockpiling, the natural ground surface shall be prepared by removing the vegetation and, if required by the director of public works, shall be keyed by a series of benches. No fill shall be placed over any water spring, marsh, refuse dump, nor upon a soggy or springy foundation, provided that this requirement may be waived by the director of public works if the permittee submits an engineer’s soils report substantiating data regarding the safety of the fill. (b) Whenever feasible natural vegetation should be retained. If removed, trees, timber, plants, shrubbery, and other vegetation, after being uprooted, displaced, or dislodged from the ground by excavation, clearing, or grubbing, shall not be stored or deposited along the banks of any stream, river, or natural water course. After being uprooted, displaced or dislodged, such vegetation shall be disposed of and removed from the site within a reasonable time, but not to exceed three months. Exceptions providing for burial in open areas may be allowed as determined by the director of public works.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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