Kauai restaurant's sewer line, fine costs $1.3M

HONOLULU (AP) — The owner and landlord of a Kauai restaurant paid a fine of more than $47,000 for using two large cesspools long after they were forced to close by federal regulations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday.

After shutting down the two cesspools, Brennecke’s Beach Broiler, in the popular tourist destination of Poipu, paid more than $1.3 million to connect the establishment — and nearby public beach park restrooms — to a sewer line.