The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-05
WATER RESOURCES
being DEVELOPED
Dry Conditions Throughout ISL
ands Have Been Broken Every
u. where By Heavy Ralns
Progress Is Noted In Several
g. Development Schemes For
Permanent Supply az. =.

Progress in opening up new avenues
Of water supply was reported yester.
day by @. K. harrison, superintendent
of photography, to the board of agri.
culture and forestry in resume of the
departmental work of September.
One new project is revealed. An in.
yestigatiOn, of water resources between
Diamond Head and Makapuu Point, the
report says, will be begun soon at the
request Of the military authorities.
Mr.. Harrison s report In part follows
D. 1.-THE Governor of Hawaii has on
several occasions called on this Office
for data and advice relative TO water
resources of the Territory. Special reT
ports relative to water resources in the
vicinity of Honolulu and Kappa, Kauai
have been furnished. Copies Of those
reports are appended hereto: x
Weather Conditions
1.-THE dry weather conditions were
broken by general rains beginningto on
Oahu and the most of Kauai aboutIthe
middle of the month. Generous rbins
began on Maui, Southern Hawaii. and
in the Lihue and Koloa districts of
Kauai about the goth, and all iAtands
dDUNt JHt .hN1ThHt
ddurinR the latter part OF the na0hth.
Z "The Laie plantation il planting the
storage of flood waters Of thu Koloa
streams on Oahu. Continuous record
stream gaging stations were,e estab-
lished ON these streams in July, 1914,
by this office in cooperation With and
at the expense Of the plantation. Oper-
alton of these stations has uncovered
the. necessity of the construction of
permanent concrete controls in order
that the Data obtained may be Of more
accuracy. The plantation IL paying for
the construction of thesek controls,
which are being construeted by this of
fee. This work has been started and
win be completed during5 the present
month.
at is believed that the formation
supplied by thse measurement stations
will enable Laie plantation to supplant
its present pumping plaHts by a grav.
ity water supply system Which will sup
ply irrigation at great saving of
cost.
Progresses
"The construction of the three new
continuous record stream measurement
SbhllOHb Tue IHTtt mlln branches Oh
the Waimea River on Kauai Is pro.
crossing favorably. 1t is estimated
that these stations will be completed
by October 81, 1915.
" A reconnaissance of the upper val,
leys of the Honokawai, OlowaIu and
Ukumehame on Maui was made, and To-
cations selected for the new continuous
record stream measurement stations to
be established on the OlOwalu and Uku-
mehame streams.
w. V. Hardy, accompanied by R. G.
Rice of the Honolulu office, visited
thirty-twO streams and ditch measure
ment stations and made twenty five
measurements at regular stations and
two miscellaneous MEASUREMENTS. One
Iaborer was employed dBring the entire
month improving trails. -
Twenty seven stream and ditch and
four rainfall g., measurement stations
were visited. Sixteen stream and ditch
masurements were made. The Waia-
hole tunnel outflow was measured and
was found to be decreasing rapidly at
both portals The flow from the north
portal on September 6 was III million
gallons daily and on September 80
about 1877 million gallons daily. On
October the flow from the south pOr,
tai was SO million gallons daily. The
total flow from both portals on Sep
TENDER 80 was about twenty six mil.
lion Aallons daily.
Only routing work was done,
Twenty nine stream and ditch and
three measurement stations were Wis
tied. Eight stream measurements were
made at the request of the military au-
thOrities.
"0nly rainfall measurements were
made by cooperative observers
Operations In View
New measurement stations on Wal
mea River will be completed. Four
stream and ditch measurement stations
on the upper Hanapope River (pri-
vately owned) win be abandoned.
Trail clearing will be continued
"Oahu--A large amount of mainte.
nance work will be done, such us re,
pairing wires, foot bridges, etc. New
concrete controls will be completed on
the Koloa, Wailele, Kahawainui, East
and Middle Malaekahana near Laie
and Kahuku. An investigation of
water resources between Diamond
Head and Makannt, Doint o.. A., ,,,;l.