"Keeping pollutants from entering our waters with storm runoff is a vital part of our effort to create a sustainable future for O'ahu based on the 21st Century Ahupua'a,"  said Mayor Mufi Hannemann.

Iwalani Sato, the City's Storm Water Quality outreach coordinator, said, "Volunteers may still sign up to participate in this weekend's events. However, anyone can be an everyday environmental hero by taking care not to let pollution enter our storm drain system."

EARTH DAY WORK PROJECTS IN THE ALA WAI WATERSHED

Saturday

Various cooperating agencies are involved in these Earth Day work projects.

**Adopt-A-Strea.m. / Malama O Manoa

Sponsor:  City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services

9 – 10:30 a.m. (East Manoa Road bridge by 10:30 a.m.)

Meet at Woodlawn Bridge, across the Manoa Marketplace

**Adopt-A-Stream / Manoa-Palolo Drainage Channel / UH Environmental Law Society

Sponsor:  City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services

9 – 11 a.m. (Koali Road by 11 a.m.)

Meet at Koali Road near Old Waialae Road

**Adopt-A-Stream / Palolo-Chaminade

Sponsor:  City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services

9 – 11 a.m. (Schnitzer Steel Hawaii Corporation will drop off metal bin)

Meet in front of Gerber Fieldhouse on the St. Louis School Campus

**Manoa Stream bank Improvements/Ala Wai Watershed Association

Sponsor:  City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services

8:30 a.m. – noon

Meet at the Manoa District Park amphitheater near the Kahaloa bridge

Ala Moana Park Cleanup/Farrington High School

Sponsor:  City and County of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation

Meet at the Ala Moana Park Diamond Head Concession

8:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Makiki Wai Trail Improvement

Sponsor:  State Department of Land and Natural Resources

9 a.m. – 2 pm

Meet at Makiki State Park

Watershed and Reef Displays and Fish Stocking / adjacent to Waikiki Aquarium

Sponsor:  State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Waikiki Aquarium

10a.m. – 1 pm Watershed and conservation displays

11 – 1130 a.m. Fish Stocking behind the Waikiki Aquarium

Adopt-A-Highway / Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel

Sponsor:  State Department of Transportation, Highways

Ala Moana Boulevard Cleanup

8 –10 a.m.

Go to www.cleanwaterhonolulu.com for more information.  ** More volunteers needed.

2007 Navy Earth Day

Saturday

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Earth Day Tour

Sponsor:  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Regional Visitor Center

(between the Hale Koa Hotel and the Army Museum on Kalia Road)