Dredging of the Ala Wai Canal
I have had first hand experience with the Ala Wai Canal all through out high school. I was a four-year paddler in high school and we held our practices in the Ala Wai, let me tell you, that canal is pretty nasty. I feel sorry for those people who have to scoop up that sludge. The sludge on the bottom to the canal is black and is pretty smelly. The canal is pretty shallow, if you wanted to, you could stand up with your head above water. In some parts of the canal if you don't be careful the canoe can get stuck because it is so shallow. One of my friends got pushed into the Ala Wai and he came out with his face covered in that black sludge. It was pretty nasty. I was lucky to have only fallen in three times. Some of my friends fell in three times in one year. One of the times I fell in I touched bottom and let me tell you that sludge felt pretty nasty. The canal is really in need of a dredging and I think that this dredging is necessary, but I really wish that they wouldn't just dump it back into the ocean. In the long run is that really going to help out? The are just polluting the ocean and may possible harm the wildlife out there. But it makes me feel a little better that the place they
So I kept an eye on the tugboat to see how far it was going out to dump the waste. As it passed us the awful smell coming from the barge confirmed my assumption that it was taking the sludge out to be dumped. I actually got to see them taking the barge out first hand. While dredging, the AMC crew's found a whole bunch of Mantis Shrimp in the 11-12 inch range. They are supposed to remove 170,000 cubic yards of sediment and dredge the canal to depths of 6 to 12 feet. Make the people up stream aware that what they do does affect the Ala Wai and everyone else down stream. This is the least dirty area of the Ala Wai and also the deepest, so it did not take long to complete. They estimate that there is around 140,000 cubic yards of sediment that needs to be dredged, resulting in the canal being 10 feet deep and 150 feet wide. Maybe they should dump it into the volcano. The area the company is going to be spending the majority of its time is Phase II, which is the area between the McCully Bridge and just past the Manoa-Palolo drainage canal. They started working on Phase II in the beginning of November and are supposed to take up to seven months to complete. Phase I of the operation is located between Ala Moana and the McCully Bridge. They are going to be digging that sludge out for a while, because there is a ton of it in there, especially in the middle section of the canal. Hopefully they are not polluting the ocean by dumping the sludge in there, but I guess that was there most sensible alternative. I seen at least four shopping carts in there, probably around 50 tires, trees, and who knows what else.
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