Public advised to avoid Ala Wai canal after wastewater discharge
KIMBERLY YUEN / KYUEN@STARADVERTISER.COM
A signs near the Ala Wai Boat Harbor warned people to stay out of the waters after wastewater was discharged into the Ala Wai Canal on Saturday morning.
KIMBERLY YUEN / KYUEN@STARADVERTISER.COM
Signs near Magic Island warned people to stay out of the waters Saturday after wastewater was discharged into the Ala Wai Canal earlier in the morning.
The Department of Health is advising the public to stay out of the waters of the Ala Wai canal from the Kapahulu library to the Ala Wai boat harbor due to a wastewater discharge Saturday morning.
About 12,950 gallons of discharge from 2256 Seaside Avenue flowed into a storm drain which leads to the Ala Wai canal, according to the department’s Clean Water Branch.
The discharge has been stopped and signs have been posted.
Water samples are being collected.
The public is advised to stay out of the water until the signs have been removed.
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According to City news release ENV received the call at 6:40 pm but didn’t arrive til 10:30 pm !! It only took the crew 45 min to remove the blockage.
SA please find out why it took ENV almost 4 hr to respond !!
Mufi is back! Sadly, the silly rail diverted money away from the massive infrastructure work needed out here. Mufi sold the bad rail project as make-work project for unemployed construction workers during the Great Recession. Truth is, infrastructure repair and rebuilding would have created many more good jobs and really addressed societal needs. Now, we don’t have the rail and we still do not have the infrastructure rebuilding we need. Mass mismanagement.
Expect the same to happen to rail. It will break down, trains stuck on the track, people walking to the next station. Station elevators will get stuck, people need to be rescued. Stations will be homeless encampments within days of opening.
Baloney. City crews don’t work on rail. No city revenue is used on rail.
wiliki – Uhhhh, it’s not the state in charge of rail, it is the city. City workers are in oversight and inspection positions of rail. Their salary is paid by the city.
City police officers are at construction sites as needed to direct traffic. Salary paid by the city.
When complete, rail workers will be paid just as bus drivers are. From the city collecting property taxes.
I could go on and on, but you get the picture. As for the city being reimbursed by HART for city employee costs, I have yet to see any credible evidence.
Rail’s crushing monthly O&M, estimated between $20-50 million per month will force our children and grandchildren to leave the Nei for a higher quality of life at lower cost on the mainland.
Pro railers = Weak of mind.
Great pic SA……from 2011. Is that the best one you have? t think that’s HTA’s cover photo for their pamphlets.
SA cut bac on reporters. Just need someone to copy and paste.
Now the water is full of it, just like Caldwell.
We’re so third world, we make the third look second.
Yes but Oahu Hawaii can brag about a $10-20 BILLION train to nowhere that will result in ever more taxes, STOPPING of new road infrastructure projects, unhealthy living conditions because of a third world sewage and drainage system that cannot even handle heavy rain,man unreliable electrical grid that constantly fails during heavy rains. Wait a minute the train runs on electricity and there is not enough capacity or redundancy to keep it reliably running during bad weather AND Hawaii has the highest electrical rates in the nation. Now Hawaii is experiencing outbreaks in disease normally reserved to dirt poor, poverty stricken developing countries. At least we have a useless, garans unreliable, forever money pit train to nowhere to be proud of while everyone looks through their yellow jaundiced eyes .
What’s even worse is that we still don’t have a “$10-20 BILLION train to nowhere”. We have spent plenty of money but we may never get it.
exactly!
It’s similar to Rio’s nasty waterways.
How quickly we forget how back in April of 2006 when the massive sewage spill filled the Ala Wai. Later a man fell into the Ala Wai small boat harbor, was infected with flesh eating bacteria and died. The Nei was in the news again, a little 8th world at best.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Apr/08/ln/FP604080336.html
Wasn’t it Moofie who had the bright idea to dump all the raw sewage into the canal back then? And I don’t think the guy fell in…I seem to remember that his friends thought it was a joke to toss him into the canal.
Mr Mililani – Read the information at the link I posted.
The Ala Wai canal should be avoided even on its best days. Nasty waterway.
Yes but Magic Island, Ala Moana beach park and Waikiki beach are all right next to the Ala Wai canal. Are warnings going to be issued to stay out of those areas too?
Maybe they are concerned about scaring away tourists?? Poor tourists don’t know how nasty the water is…
lol, yeah, when DONT you avoid the ala wai?
bob, exactly–only taxi cabs go in there????
I would say our level of Health safety is very BAD considering we are surrounded by water. People think RIO is bad this is Hawaii and it seems its ran just like a 3rd world country.
And when you start looking at all the CORRUPTION behind the scenes, terrible roads,public bathrooms, airport one of the WORST in the country and worse than MANY 3rd world countries you start to wonder. Why do we keep voting the same F O O L S in. Wake up Hawaii !
People cannot see or just bury their head in the infected sand how much of a negative economic, social and health impact the Oahu rail project has on the entire island of Oahu. It is like a cancer that draws precious resources and effort from the host to feed the cancer cells at the expense of the body. Resources that should have gone to seriously upgrade Oahu’s sewage and drainage system infrastructure but real estate developers, construction unions, HECO, and other special interest don’t financially benefit from spending money on sewage and drainage upgrades. Gov’t leaders no longer can hide the consequences of basing decisions solely on special interest profit and personal financial gain (Nestor and the rest). You reap what you sew and the HepA outbreak is only the beginning because man global climate will not just cause Oahu to be hotter and drier but also the other extreme of heavy downpours and strong winds when Oahu has to dodge ever more frequent hurricanes and tropical disturbances that will further cause our oceans, waterways and living environment to be seriously pollute ike Rio de jeneiro.
Connecting the dots towards leaving Hawaii
Or kick out of office all of the elected leaders who have sold Oahu and Hawaii residents down the polluted canal. Trump said if his daughter was sexually harassed at work she should quit her job and find work elsewhere. The correct answer is to file a sexual harassment lawsuit like Gretchen Carlson which resulted in perv Roger Ailes to be fired from Foxnews.
Agree, brand new legislature. #BNC
the ala wai is oahu’s natural sewer relief to the ocean
To make matters worse, people dump their opala into the canal; no class.
All the waters around Oahu should be avoided. The City is pumping untreated sewage from their wastewater treatment plants into the ocean. Then, in many places, especially North Shore, there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of cesspools leeching untreated sewage into the ocean.
That includes Andy Anderson’s restaurant.
Wastewater discharge and broken water lines is an on going problem it seems. Glad i don’t live there.
Again! Shades of Mufi again…Rather than building a rail that few will use our sewers and water mains could be replaced.
Another Caldwell shortcoming. City employees do not respect the guy.
Caldwell fails at just about everything (except making money for himself) These sewer emergencies seem to happen a lot so you would think they would have their spill response team ready for a quick response. Nope. Take their time and more pollution. I can’t wait to vote against this buffoon.
So what caused this leak? Can they fix it?
I just saw on the news that the State fined the City for last year’s sewage release in the Ala Wai. Lesson Learned? I think not.
At least they published the address of the leak. Often, “we don’t know where it came from.” is enough to socialize the costs of release.
what is waste water?
Everything that goes down a drain or TOILET inside your house, condo or apartment.
Basically the same as everything you post.
…and it isn’t even raining????
Finally, we are simply posting signs. Just like we did at Sacred Falls.
Our city and state are so messed up its very upsetting. Will you INCOMPETENT folks please DO YOUR JOB, FIX and MAINTAIN what we have or just RETIRE. This is very disgusting and worse than RIO, are we a 3rd world country ? sure seems like it
Shucks, I was gonna go for my daily swim in this polluted water since 1959 too!
Cleaner than Rio.
One of these days a monster is going to come out of the Ala Wai.