The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-01
LOCAL CONTRACTORS
FIGURING ON BIDS


The filing in job in connection With
the Kewalo reclamation scheme, for
which the public works department In
now preparing to, advertise for bids,
presents a problem upon which many,
local contracts are figuring, They are :
by no means the only people Interest,"
ed, for the job is SO big that the prob.
ability of taking the necessary. filing
from the beach has caused some of the
beach. property owners to take notice.
The army dredging along tho water
front, when the. material was needed
for Fort De Russy, did lot of harm
to the beach, according to some owners
of beach property. The big. holes
which the army dredgers made in the
ocean bed this side of Waikiki are said
to have caused drifting of sands which
exposed coral on the bathing beaches.
and made holes there which are danger-.
| GUS to bathers.
Moving Small Mountain
The army dredging operations were
small compared to those which will
| have to be carried on if the Kewalos
tract is to be filed by dredging from
| the ocean. 1t is figured that the work
may considerably change the character
of the beach, and the contractors will
not be the only people to "sit up and
| take notice. ~
It is estimated that to fill the Ke-
i, walo lots which are now formally con-
demned, and to be filed in as soon as
a contract for the work is awarded,
will take about five hundred thousand
cubic yards of soil. This represents
quite little mountain, "It would
cover. an area of 1875 acres three feet
deep" said Marston Campbell, super
intendent of public works, .tand il
you stop to think about il, moving
such volume of earth. is quite job.
~ do not know what plan will be
followed and this department: of course
has nothing to- do with that part OF
the proposition. We simply advertise
i for bids to do the work-the eontrac-
tors can, figure for themselves where
they will get the necessary material. :"
~ y4s. May Try Sluicing.
4 One plan is to sluice the necessary
dirt from ;Roundtop, or some other hill.
side, :on to the Kewalo fats. This
would involve the installation Of an
expensive plant, and the ), amount Of
dirt to be carried 10 so, large that quito
, q hole would be made in Roundtop.
"It Is not for the government to
4 study out the proposition now that IL
lis to be passed ont to bidders" said
Campbell, "but at a guess should say
that the dredging plan will most likely
appeal to the contractors, though ]
{, have heard of the sluicing proposition
{ hbeiug discussed. do not think that
the dredging would tend to spoil the
beach at all. do mot believe that
3 the army dredging was&responsibie fol-
sand leaving some of the bathine
: beaches. This movement. of sand ap
pears to be periodical. To my knowl
I edge, during the twelve years ! havs
been here. it occurs every now and
= then. And anyhow, the dredging thai
would be done for the Kewalo filling
would be on the town side OF KeWRls
z stream. 1t would deepen the water fo
. va large area that Is now dry ct Low
tide, and made lot of fine new beach
/ know of no better means to improve
the section than this. But it is all NJ
TO the bidders. F"
The contract will be offered in sec
! tions and as a whole, and the terms o
the contract will leave it to the bid
ders to make their own arrangement
for getting material. 1t is considered
! however, that hauling material for sue
a large contract is out of the question
and that dredging from the ocean bee
; or sluieing from the hillsides, win hay
to be done.