The state Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Water and Land Development is paying $20,000 to the engineering firm of Mink & Yuen, Inc., to prepare an “assessment” of the Waiahole Ditch System. The first knowledge that the … Continued
The state Department of Health Safe Drinking Water Branch announced last month that it had found 1,2,3-trichioropropane (TCP) in samples of drinking water obtained from the Waialua Sugar Pump 3 water system. The pesticide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) also was detected in … Continued
Moloka’i Ranch Withdraws Application For Grading as DLNR Pursues Enforcement In June 1993, Moloka’i Ranch spent $21,800 clearing and grubbing approximately 28 acres of shoreline land in the area of Halena Camp, on the southwestern coast of Moloka’i. The clearing … Continued
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected a site for the Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) planned for South Hawai`i. The site chosen is on land owned by Ka`u Agribusiness Company (a subsidiary of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd.), just over a … Continued
The year is 1974. The place is Makena, Maui. A rude, three-room shack, built in the twilight of the 19th century sits between the narrow road and the pounding sea. A dense grove of hau shades the house and a … Continued
Last month, the group Hui Lihikai – Citizens for Protection of the North Kohala Coastline formally asked the Board of Land and Natural Resources to revoke a Conservation District permit for a house on the North Kohala Coast. The permit … Continued
Fishing isn’t what it used to be. The complaint is heard frequently. But is there evidence to support it? Or is it rather an expression of nostalgia for simpler times, when fishing (and almost everything else) seemed less complicated, less … Continued
The year is 1976. Gerald Ford is president. George Ariyoshi is governor of Hawai’i. Frank Fasi is mayor of Honolulu. And the residents of Waiahole and Waikane valleys on O’ahu’s windward coast are fighting the battle of their lives to … Continued
For the most part, at the time the great irrigation systems were being developed, scant attention was paid to the effects of the water transfers upon farmers and others relying upon the stream water for their livelihood. In the case … Continued