The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-26
NUUAkU DAM
AUTHORIZED
Mr.. Holloway Dis
putes Statement
of MaheIona.

OF mdneIOnd.
II Over his own signature Represents
. tive Mahelona has made the charg
that Superintendent of Public Work
Holloway has been guilty of bad fat
in undertaking the construction of tn
Nuuanu darn and reservoir at all. A
Mr.. Mahelona was a member of thu
! House in the last Legislature, and wa
moreover chairman of the Commute,
| on Public Land and Internal Improve
ments, this charge at once assumes very
| grave proportions.
| In the last session of the Legisla
| ture, Superintendent Holloway asked
| for an appropriation of $4,000 to con
struct the big reservoir in Nuuanu val
ley. This request went to The commit
tee of which Mahelona was chairman,
and in long report signed by Maize
Iona, Andrade, Pail, Fernandez, Quinn,
Holstein and Mahikoa, it was denied
1t did not, therefore pass the House.
The statement of Mr.. Mahelona CON
corning this committee and its works
is as follows:
Honolulu. July 49, 1906.
While there is SO much talk with
reference tc the insecurity of the Nuu-
anu dam creating an impression in the
community that there has been official
corruption and graft, there is one very
important matter of which the public
should be reminded and which makes
the building of the dam by the Super
intendent of Public Works, if not al
together Illegal at least a fragrant
breach of faith on the part of that Off
cial. During the session of the last
Legislature when an attempt was be-
ing made to secure government control
of the waters of the valleys of Manoa
Pauoa, and Kalihi a resolution was in
troduced at the instance of Mr.. Hollo- |
way through Lilikalani to insert in the
or loan bill the sum of
thousand dollars 1855 000) |
for increasing the storage capacity of
water in Nuuanu Valley. This resolu-
ton was referred to the Committee on !
Public Lands and Internal Improve i
ments which consisted of Mahe1ona, |
Pail, Fernandez, Quinn. Hol- |
stein and Mahikoa. The committee re-
ported saying:
There are now in Nuuanu Valley !
.hree CD large reservoirs in which are
collected the storm surface water from /
he upper end of the valley, which, in
he course of it's progress to the reser-
zoirs passes through the upper lands
and runs over and amongst decaying
organisms of numerous characters
where it with the effect of the direct
avs of the sun, evaporates and be-
comes impregnated with the germs
generated in the basins, rendering it
lbsolutely unsafe and dangerous for
Use for domestic and drinking pur-
,oses. The plan, as your commit
ee believes. is to build another large
forage reservoir or dam, and there
ollect and keep a much greater supply,
f water of the same character as now
observed, and which is open to the
anne objections and dangers to the
sers as the water now supplied
t is practically inviting an epidemic in
he City of Honolulu, by making it the
nain and practically. if all the money :
or the lettering of our water supply
) spent thereon, the only water for
ousehold use. That this danger of
ickness is not an idle dream is shown !,
y the recent occurrences on the Is
md of Molokai and in Kona, where the /
cath rate was exceptionally large. \
onsidering the number of inhabitants r
what it would be in so thickiy a >
opulated center as Honolulu is terri .
lie to contemplate. The storage of a /
trger body of similar water under the r
anne conditions, would. without fail r
realty increase the dangers of an g
pidemic of typhoid, and diseases of | ,
milar nature.
I'VE believe that the health of thei
Immunity at large is to US our great
st care and in order to preserve the
anne measures should be taken and
public moneys spent for the
urpose of obtaining the purest, health I
st and most wholesome water possibIe t
nd for this much desired end all such
loneys should be first appropriated G
,r the acquisition Of all available t
bring water which can be procured !
'om many of the valleys surrounding
| the City of Honolulu =
Therefore this committee recon-
lends that no money be appropriated
u increasing the storage capacity of
ater in Nuuanu Valley. and that the
be tabled
The resolution was in accordancei
18th the report of the committee
ibled. Mr.. Holloway then asked for
n appropriation of Two Hundred
thousands Dollars 1920. 000) Wateri
eneral." The House believing that
would expend it in the way
lat he was directed to do by the Leg
lature, passed this appropriation. In
lew of the unanimous adoptfon
the committee report the House
'uId never have supposed that
r. Holloway would take the
oney which it had voted for the
lrpose of securing a supply of pure {
oring water to do the very thingi
hich it had refused him permission
} do. but as soon as the Legislature
ijourned, Mr.. Holloway took the matt
r into his own hands and openly
olated the express directions of the
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