LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Kauai officials are reassuring residents that their drinking water is safe from the chemical herbicide atrazine.

The Garden Island reports that more than 300 people recently attended a presentation by the manager of the Kauai County Department of Water.

David Craddick told them that the department has been monitoring the water from the Waimea-Kekaha water system for decades. He says no trace of atrazine has ever been found in the Waimea-Kekaha water system.

Honolulu-based attorney Gerard Jervis says the U.S. Department of Agriculture found atrazine in water samples taken at Waimea Canyon Middle School in 2011. Craddick says the chemical could have traveled through the air.

Atrazine is banned in Europe due to groundwater contamination risks. Studies suggest it is associated with a number of serious health problems.

KALAHEO, KAUAI (HawaiiNewsNow)- A truck crashed into the front doors of Kalaheo Post Office on Kauai Sunday.

The incident happened at around 11 a.m. A Mazda truck driven by an 87-year-old man plowed into the front door of the post office. Luckily the post office is closed on Sundays, so no injuries were reported.

The driver was also uninjured, as was the 85-year-old woman in the passenger seat of the truck. It is unknown why the driver crashed.

Damage to the doors is estimated at $10,000 - $15,000, and no mailboxes were damaged.  

The post office will be open to the public Monday.

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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Two men have been charged with stealing rocks and damaging a cultural site on Kauai.

The island's prosecuting attorney says numerous truckloads of rocks with an estimated value of around $6,000 were removed from a historic and cultural site in Poipu. The site is maintained by the Royal Order of Kamehameha I.

Prosecutors say the rocks were taken between late June and early July in 2011, and are believed to have been used to build a rock wall on Roland Sagum III's property. Sagum is charged with theft and turned himself in to authorities. An arrest warrant has been issued for Lealiki Koli, also charged with theft and property damage.

Prosecutors say the site suffered an estimated $7,000 in damage.

Sagum, a former Democratic state representative, will be arraigned Thursday.

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