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Updated at 4:58 p.m., Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Boulder crashes near site of 2002 Hawaii Kai rockslide

Advertiser Staff

 

This boulder landed about 10 feet from homes in the the Lalea townhome complex in Hawai'i Kai Monday night.

DEBORAH BOOKER I The Honolulu Advertiser

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A 2 1/2-ton boulder fell from a hillside above the Lalea townhome complex in Hawai'i Kai Monday night and landed about 10 feet from a home where the family inside slept.

The rockslide occurred a few hundred yards from where two boulders the size of garbage dumpsters crashed into parked cars in the Lalea complex on Thanksgiving Day 2002, forcing the evacuation of 26 families.

Officials from Castle & Cooke, which developed the 290-unit complex, and Kamehameha Schools, which owns the hillside, said today that they were still evaluating the situation.

Following the 2002 rockslides, the two organizations spent about $3 million to clear the hillside of debris and install wire fencing.