page_title: Kilauea Sugar Plantation Railway
section_title: Environmental pollution
hierarchical_section_title: Kilauea Sugar Plantation Railway / Environmental pollution
caption_attribution_description: English: Plantation worker standing amidst containers marked “poison” at Kilauea, Kauai, 1914
context_page_description: The Kilauea Sugar Plantation Railway or Kilauea Track Line was 1881–1944 a 12 ¹⁄₂ miles long narrow gauge railway network with a gauge of 2 ft for transporting sugarcane and sugar at the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in Kilauea on Kaua'i of Hawaii.
context_section_description: The photographs of a herbicide poison train taken in 1914 alarmed the Health Department’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Office to investigate and mitigate the environmental pollution caused by the sugar cane industry. Subsequently an extensive cleanup program was conducted in 2012, including in the removal of 814 tons of contaminated soil in the area.
caption: Plantation worker standing amidst containers marked “poison”, 1914
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