Wailupe Stream Clean Up on Home Stretch!

After the multi-year struggle to focus resources on much-needed Wailupe stream clean up, `Āina Haina residents began reporting a few weeks ago that work had begun in the upper valley. 

(Pictured at left is the downstream view from the Ani St. Bridge on September 15, 2011.  Photo courtesy of Andrea Wagner)

As of late October, clean-up was largely complete, with shrubs, trees and other waste matter removed down to the Hind Drive Bridge -- just in time for the downpour rain marking the first day of November.

Many neighbors along the stream have noted incomplete debris removal.  Those debris indeed washed downstream in rising waters during the sustained downpour on October 31 -November 1 and heavy debris was reported floating along and washed up on the shoreline of `Āina Haina waterfront property the morning of November 1.

The matter has been reported and we expect that the City and State teams that responded to community outcry in September will complete the task before debris dams form and further waste matter washes out to sea.

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The `Āina Haina Community Association would like to thank the City Department of Facilities Management (DFM), City Department of Transportation Services (DOTS), Deputy Director Kai Nani Kraut, City Councilman Stanley Chang, and State Representative Mark Hashem for their collective collaborative efforts in expediting Wailupe Stream cleaning.
 
We would also like to recognize and thank the many citizens who spoke out at the AHCA General Meeting about their real experiences with flooding in our community and the risk of the more than two years of unmaintained overgrowth.(Pictured at right is the downstream view from the Ani St. Bridge on November 1, 2011.  Photo courtesy of Andrea Wagner)

The `Āina Haina Community Association would like to thank the City Department of Facilities Management (DFM), City Department of Transportation Services (DOTS), Deputy Director Kai Nani Kraut, City Councilman Stanley Chang, and State Representative Mark Hashem for their collective collaborative efforts in expediting Wailupe Stream cleaning.
 
We would also like to recognize and thank the many citizens who spoke out at the AHCA General Meeting about their real experiences with flooding in our community and the risk of the more than two years of unmaintained overgrowth.

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