The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-04-27
Legislature Provides Funds To
Remedy Wastes On the
Nuuanu RainSheds
UNDERSTOOD GOVERNOR
WILL SIGN MEASURE
City Engineer Whitehouse Out
lines Avenues Through Which
Fund will Be Expended

With both house and senate yesterday
approving of House Bill 300, popularity
known as tho "loan" bill, and every
assurance being given that Governor
Pinkham will sign the measure, the
city of Honolulu will soon have on
hand $lO5,O 900 for needed water and
sewer improvements, That the Gov
ernor will sign the bill was given out
by an authority high in government
circles.
The measure, as it pertained to the
water and sewer items, was fostered by
the legislative committee of the board
of supervisors and championed in the
legislature by Norman T. Watkins in
the house and Charles II. Rice in the
senate. Its chief significance to the
city will be that water shortage in
Nuuanu Valley will be eliminated for
all time.
Just how the $l05,OOO will be expend.
ed will not be determined until action
is taken by the board of supervisors,
but it is quite certain that recommends.
, lions of City Engineer L. NJ. White
house will be followed. Whitehouse
said last night:
Nuuanu Water Supply First
1.-THE intention is to use as much
of the money as needed in conserving
the rainfall run-off of NuuRnu Valley.
The big item will be to build a system
of intercepting bitches to lead the
water from the slopes now going to
waste back into the dam.
1.-THE rainfall on the available water.
! shed yesterday was thirteen inches. If
the intercepting bitches proposed had
been in existence. reservoir No. would
| now be overlooking. As it is, there is
only twenty eight feet of water. Res.
ervoirs No. . and No. l are running
| over, but there is no place to store the
oveT-run and it is lost.
"By the system of intcrcepting
bitches proposed the catchment area of
| Ruuanu dam would be Increased from
900 acres to approximately 1000 acres
j The bitches would be concrete lined
where the ground is porous, but the
4 run-of would be carried in natural
waterways where the ground is hard
| anu JhC INV ldbI. uC nuulh
have q capacity of 100000 gallons
flow In twenty.four hours. BY the in
tercepting ditch plan water can be
caught at levels below the dam and
still led back to the dam.
Water Released By Seepage
"Under the new system, water wOuIt
be released from Reservoir No. tc
Reservoirs Nos. B and 2 only by see
page. ] would increase the capacity
Of Reservoir No. 8 by excavatinl
$4,000 yards. l would also like t.
increase the capacity Of Reservoir No
|. It is simply a question Of increas
ing the catchment area, leading tn
water back to the dam, increasing tn,
capacity Of the reservoirs, catching al
the water now going to waste by see
page from the upper reservoirs and tn
fresh water supply problem will b.
solved.
cit is mandatory that $l5,00O o
100000 of the $lO5,OOO be experde,
for sewer system in Puunui. Thi
region is intirely without sewers, i
becoming thickly populated and be
cause of the heavy rains, cesspools he
come OVERLOADED and run-off their con
tVubS lhIO anu l Ill
is a grave menace to health in the dis
trict and must be remedied.
aside from this we hope that W
win have 5000 or $4,000 left for need
ed sewer improvements in the city pro
per which are much needed. The eos
of the intereepting bitches to connec
with the Nuuanu dam, expect will b
about $4,000. The bitches win lea
OF to one side about 1000 feet and o
the other side about 1000 feet Tn
bitches will be on a fixed grade an
will follow the slopes. Naturally,
will be necessary to maintain cantor
niers to keep the bitches clear durin
freshet times.
"AnOther item will be the extendin
Of the Lulnmabu stream dam and tn
building Of intercepting bitches on bot
= sides. This viii greatly increase ii
eatchment area and can be done at
; cost of not more. than $4,000. 1t wi
first be necessary to make careful su
veys but l estimate all the work can
completed in six months. If the di
ches were in place now there would |
4 no clamoT about water shortage"
y A-I-------A-ASS $780,