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Engineers propose changes to Ala Wai flood project

JAMM AQUINO/JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Palolo resident Sean Scanlan walks along the grass fringe above Pukele Stream behind his residence on Feb. 3, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now recommending the removal of two huge basins planned for Pukele and Waiomao streams and improving the system above Manoa Marketplace to increase protection for the University of Hawaii at Manoa and lower Honolulu neighborhoods.

JAMM AQUINO/JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM

Palolo resident Sean Scanlan walks along the grass fringe above Pukele Stream behind his residence on Feb. 3, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now recommending the removal of two huge basins planned for Pukele and Waiomao streams and improving the system above Manoa Marketplace to increase protection for the University of Hawaii at Manoa and lower Honolulu neighborhoods.