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wcerto
Ahonui
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 03/24/2008 : 02:23:58 AM
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"A pictoral tribute to Hi`ilawe and Waipi`o with Iz in the background."
Boy did that make me homesick! Wasn't too impressed with Morgan Toledo's taro, though... (the farmer in me coming out)
Sadly, Hi'ilawe itself was shown in the post Hamakua Sugar destruction phase- Hi'ilawe is supposed to be a TWIN waterfall- what happened to Hakalaoa the lover? Only towards the end was there a shot of them together.
Another shot right before the end- the strange sight of Hiilawe falling into the pool about a fifth of the way down and disappearing into the ground- after the "dam" Francis Morgan had built (by putting a road across the gulch with a tiny culvert underneath that clogged) broke, about 50 feet of the wall that held the water in this pool was broken away. Without that depth of water protecting the bottom of the pool from the force of the falls, and with the additional water diverted into the falls from Hakalaoa, the bottom of the pool was damaged and now the water flows directly into the ground unless the stream is really pumping. We suspect the water winds up in the Lower Hamakua Ditch.
In the same picture, the equally strange sight of water bursting out of the middle of the cliff in Hakalaoa falls, so the water appears to disappear in Hi'ilawe and reappear in Hakalaoa. This is actually leakage and overflow from the Lower Hamakua Ditch repair that caused the company to destroy Hi'ilawe and Hakalaoa in the first place- after the waterfall broke through the tunnel, a channel was dug from Hakalaoa stream to divert the water into Lalakea stream (which feeds Hi'ilawe), and Hakalaoa was dammed off. A flume was built across the falls, which is leaking badly in the picture. Also as much water is diverted from the back of the valley as possible to reduce the number of trips that must be taken back there to clean the intakes, and the flume is not big enough to carry all the water, so the overflow is contributing most of what you see in the picture.
What I see when I look at the picture is water that is not in the river for taro farmers and for fish to migrate upstream-this much leakage means the entire river has been diverted into the ditch, and the riverbed is dry below the diversion. Taro farmers have to depend on water from springs below the intake (and these days water from other streams where the intakes have been abandoned), and no fish live in the river above the diversions because they reproduce into the ocean and can't make it back upstream when the river is dry.
Thanks for the link!
Chris |
Edited by - ypochris on 03/24/2008 02:27:37 AM |
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 03/24/2008 : 02:32:16 AM
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The Nikolo Okami version, although a still shot, shows Hi'ilawe/Hakalaoa the way it is supposed to look...
Chris
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hawaiianmusiclover06
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2008 : 3:58:19 PM
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I found one more video of Hi'ilawe that is available on You Tube.
Hi'ilawe by Weldon Kekauoha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDI5wJUvIs
Alana :) |
Aloha Kakou, maluhia a me aloha mau loa (Hello everyone, peace and love forever) |
Edited by - hawaiianmusiclover06 on 03/25/2008 3:58:59 PM |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 04:54:31 AM
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| I'll check later, but I'm pretty sure that the other ones I can think of have already been posted here. |
He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
'Alika / Polinahe |
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