The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-16
.NENREC[AMATION
PLAN FOR WAIKIKI
IS DECIDED upon
Socalled Pinkham Project En-
tirely Discarded Problem Re-
duCed To Simplest Proportions
WON'T TRY TO MAKE n ~.
,> = WATER RUN UP HILL
SWafnps win Be Drained and Re-
claimed For Residential Use At
Cost That WIN Be Reasonable

After discussions, arguments, surveys
and innumerable conferences a feasible
plan for Waniki reclamation has been,
evolved and decided upon in all but
some minor details. .@
Phes feature of the new plan is that
1t .discards entirely the so-ealled Pink.
ham project, with its elaborate frills,
and reduces the problem to Its simplest
proportions There win be no wide
canal with its sweeping curve from the
Moehitsuki Club to Kapiolani Park, no.
boulevards, no unworkable check gates
to handle the rise and fall of a tide,
that doesn't rise and fall and no three
or four hundred thousand dollar bill
to pay. u
But the swamps will be drained and
reclaimed for residential use just the
same. The muck lagoon that now pours
its turbid flood waters into the bathE
ing spot at Waikiki will be a thing
of the past and the meandering slough
that crosses the Kalia Road will join,
the 0utrigger lagoon as thing Of the
past,
Won't Attempt Impossible
Instead Of attempting to make sea
water run up hill to flush out the pro;
posed drainage canal, the canal agreed
upon will be drained by the natural
flow of the mauka streams that now
make the Waikiki duckponds possible,
while the stream that flows today into
the sea via Makee Island and the Ka-
piolani lotus pond will continue so to
flow, but through a channel straighten.
ed and concreted.
The main drainage canal will head
near the Waialae Road and will pick
the flow from the Manoa stream. From
almost the same point smaller canal
will intercept the flow of the streams
now meandering through the swamps in
the direction of the Outrigger Club and
Kapiolani Park. The main canal will
run in practically a straight line from
Waialae Road, crossing Kalakaua Ave
nue. short distance Waikiki of the
junction of the street car line and
the avenue. 1t will cross Kalia Road
Mt almost the location of the present
bridge. / 81.
@'I''' Cutoff walls and other necessary en-.
gineering works to force the flood wa
ters from mauka into one or the other
of the canals will be installed.
Venice idea" Eliminated
The H'Venice idea" has been entirely
eliminated from the present Waikiki
reclamation scheme, said Lyman H,
Bigelow, superintendent of public
works, Yesterday as confirmation that
much of the floss of the Pinkham plans
has been abandoned under the new ad-
ministration.
"AccOrding to our present plans it
is purely a drainage scheme which we
intend to inaugurate for the reclama'
tion of the Waikiki swamps. Some of
the fancier ideas of the Pinkham plan
might be worked out, say, in ten years
but under the restrictions of the legis
lative act we are working under that
scheme would be impossible now, if
for no other reason than the amount
of money we have available,' he said
Superintendent Bigclow said the re
port that the work at Waikiki was tC
be done for about one third what the
Pinkham scheme would have cost could
not be based on definite estimate, as
the present plans were not yet complet
ed, so such an estimate could be made
Big Saving Effected
However, he gave an inkIing Of how
a big saving is to be made by saying
that there is to be a relocation of the
main canal or lagoon so it will pass
through government holdings wherever
possible and not through a great many
kuIeanas on the mauka side of thu
swamp rs was planned by Pinkham
What is lost in sweeping or straight
lines of beauty will be made up il
equal utility by lagoon which viii
follow a course where the right of way
can be easily secured.
A radical change contemplated in thu
original plans, is the fact that no eff
fort will be made to make the canal 81
wide and so deep that it will fnrnisl
all the necessary material for the fill
ing in of the land drained.
"The canal or lagoon is to be a drain
age one. The filling in of the lant
will be accomplished partly in anothe
wav,' Mr.. Bigelow said
How the fill on the drained lands j
to be made the superintendent of pub
lie works declined, TO say at this time
At present the public works engineer
ing force is at work completing tn
'property plotting" of the waikiki
swamps. It will be fully week be
fore this can be completed after whic
the plans are to be traced and tn
blue prints made. Mr.. BigeloV say
that the course of drainage lagoon wi
not be definitely located uutil thi
property plotting has been finished.
The new plans for the Waikiki rC
clamation work are being worked Ou
wv an engineering board consisting O
Col Robert +. Raymond, district er
rineor of the Hawaiian Department, [
e. A.. A. g. Cantn. "itv engineer, an
the superintendent Of public works. A
three engineers are understood to b
in accord regarding the plans whic
are now practically completed, excep
ing for the minor details.