Updated at 6:39 p.m., Sunday, April 8, 2007
Kai'olu Street parking restricted by wastewater project
Advertiser Staff
Free on-street parking on Kai'olu Street in Waikiki will be restricted from sunrise to sunset for an indefinite period beginning tomorrow as contractors resume jet grouting operations as part of the Beachwalk Wastewater Emergency Bypass project.According to city officials, jet grouting strengthens the subsurface soils so workers can safely build an underground tunnel that will hold a new state-of-the-art wastewater pipe. The microtunneling avoids the conventional trenching of an entire street.
At the corner of Kai'olu Street and Kuhio Avenue, workers are digging a second 28-foot deep pit which will accept the second microtunneling line to be built later this month, launching from the mauka pit near the Ala Wai Community Gardens. It will go 1,100 feet under the Ala Wai Canal and Kai'olu, parallel to the first line that has already been installed.
Contractors will be testing the first line this week, using canal water. The first and the second line will be hooked up to the Beachwalk Pump Station this summer, completing the major portion of the Beachwalk Wastewater Emergency Bypass project.
