Updated at 12:29 p.m., Thursday, February 8, 2007
Hawai'i Kai water-main repairs still under way
Advertiser Staff
HAWAI'I KAI — The Board of Water Supply hopes to complete repairs today to the 12-inch water main that ruptured twice since last night on Keahole Street at the entrance to the Hawai'i Kai Shopping Center.Residents at the One Keahole Place condominium and tenants at the Hawai'i Kai Shopping Center were without water throughout the day. Water trucks were available to residents and the stores, said Tracy Burgo, Board of Water Supply spokeswoman.
Traffic is being contra-flowed in each direction between Kalaniana'ole Highway and Hawai'i Kai Drive, Burgo said. The water main first broke at 9 p.m. yesterday. As workers turned the water back on in the pipe at 4:30 a.m. today, it ruptured again, Burgo said. The pipe was put in place in 1973, Burgo said. The cause of the water main break is yet undetermined.
The mauka-bound lanes near the Safeway store entrance will remain closed this afternoon for road repairs, and only local mauka-bound traffic will be allowed to pass.
The Board of Water Supply will be issuing an update later this afternoon, she said.
Randy Doi, a department manager at the Longs Drugs store in the nearby Hawai'i Kai Shopping Center, said last night that his store and others in the area had lost water pressure, but that there did not appear to be flooding in the shopping center.
