Posted at 1:31 a.m., Friday, July 20, 2007
HECO using helicopters starting today
Advertiser Staff
Over the next two weeks the Hawaiian Electric Company will be using a helicopter to perform work and inspections of its facilities not accessible by ground vehicles.At approximatelly 8:30 a.m. today, the HECO will use a helicopter to fly crews from above Kamehame Ridge in Hawaii Kai to the back of Hahaione Valley until about 11 a.m.
Monday through next Friday, the helicopter will be flying from the Board of Water supply tank at the mauka end of Waimano Home Roads to the Valley west of Waimano Home Road. Flights will be start at 8:30 a.m. and end around 4 p.m. each day.
July 30-Aug. 3, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, the helicopter will be at Halawa Valley to locations on the ridge overlooking Kaneohe and the Likelike Highway.
July 31, it will be used from the BWS tank on Wiliwili Ridge in East Honolulu to structure locations that are inaccessible by truck on the ridge.
