News Flash!
After the educational study was completed and the Kanu o ka 'Aina and Kamehameha
Schools students departed Waipi‘o Valley on Friday, March 12th, 2004, Bishop
Museum scientists Ron Englund and David Preston remained in the valley to
conduct additional stream research. We were staying at the old Araki Hotel,
very near the Hi'ilawe Stream road crossing. Starting just above the Hi'ilawe
Stream road crossing, Ron and David spent Saturday taking stream flows and
water quality readings upstream to above the Edith Kanaka'ole Foundation taro
'auwai intakes. Saturday was a hot, muggy and still day with no rain falling
during our day of fieldwork. The rain started as a gentle drizzle late Saturday
evening, but by around 11-12 pm lightning and thunder started, an unusual
event for Waipi‘o Valley. Around 1:00 am Sunday morning a huge thunder crash
awoke us, and then the heavy downpour really began.
