The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-12
QUEEN EMMA PLACE
WITHDRAWN FROM SALE
Improvement Club Committee on Filtration
Meets the Acting Governor -supt. Holloway
Is Preparing Plans for Ftering Plant.

I recommended a filter plant and fur
nished plans and specifications for the
purpose. Under the pressure of the
political and material revolution of the
| last few wears, the subject had been
| lost sight of, but its Importance was
! greater than ever. The speaker thought
/ that perhaps this was a fortunate in
Z cident in that it had focused public
attention upon the subject. 1t general
| ly took an epidemic or an earthquake
| to wake Honolulu up. Here is an OPP
portunity to accomplish something
| without waiting for that stimulus
| Acting Governor Atkinson, on being
| rallied for a park crank" by Mr..
Thurston, stated that he had found It
very difficult to enlist either sympathy
or money among residents of Honolulu
for parks. He had been Informed that
the Rapid Transit Co. did not intend to
extend it's lines up Nuuanu. Still he
thought the idea of making a park OF
the lot a good one
Mr.. Thurston mentioned the great
historical interest attaching to the
property as reason for its reservation
for a park.
Mr.. ingalls, expressed his hearty sym
pathy with the park movement.
OFFICIALS UNCONvINCED.
Land Commissioner Pratt. in giving
cut the information that the sale of the
Queen Emma place had been postponed
without day, stated that the postpone
nlent was not caused by the pressure
of the filtration plant agitation 1t was
due to the withdrawal of the offer of
eco as an upset price for the prop
erty. Mr. Pratt expressed regret that
probably $4,000 was to be tied up in
the property repeating his views as
formerly published-namely. that upper
Nuuanu Valley, excepting for its few
homesteads, was already practically
large park reservation, and, moreover,
that the Queen Emma place had sur
vived it's adaptability for a filtering
plant site owing to the growth of resi-
dence sections upon the higher levels
Superintendent Holloway, being ask
ed if it was true that an engineers re-
port on a f1ltra ton scheme was being
prepared, said he was preparing such
a report.
eff the Legislature provides for !
filtration plant it will be constructed"
Mr.. Holloway proceeded. I'VE are but |
the servants of the people
THE site should be near No. 4 reser- |
voir-the big one now under construc- |
ton. There will be no need to continue |
the present reservoirs, as they would !
be reduced to mud basins. TIC place |
the filter at Notwithstanding would be |
to cut down the head So or 40 feet, |
which would absolutely prohibit getting |
any filtered water up Manoa, Makiki |
or Puunui.
1T is intended 10 conduct the water
of the two streams-Lulumahu in the
gulch on the Diamond Head side, and
Maole, in the gulch on the Eva side
into the new reservoir.
From the filter part of the water
will be conveyed by ditch or pipe line
to the electric light station at Luaka-
ha, and as much as necessary be piped
direct to the higher levels. The water
spent in producing the electric light
current would need no further filtra-
ton. and being caught in a settling
basin would be transmitted thence to
the lower levels
Mr.. Holloway is still unconvinced of
the, necessity of filtration for clear
water protected by reserva-
ton of lands from contamination of
farms and homesteads. He showed the
Exporter, in a volume of department re-
ports, a table of about a score of
analyses of Honolulu waters made by
Prof. Van Slyke some years ago. There
we're more favorable of Nuuanu waters
han almost any other. The profess
or's opinion was given that surface
water, kept free of impurities, contain
ID nothing injurious.
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