Posted at 1:50 a.m., Friday, October 5, 2007
Waimea levee repair work on Kauai wins recognition
Advertiser Staff
WAIMEA – The Kaua'i Department of Public Works Highway Maintenance Division has received an award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Waimea flood control project being the Most Improved Maintenance (project) in the Honolulu district for Fiscal Year 2007.The Waimea project was selected for this distinction from a total of 26 flood control projects under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps in an area that includes the state of Hawai'i, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.
"The amount of work and effort that it took for the Kaua'i County Public Works crew to correct all the deficiencies was phenomenal," said Lincoln Gayagas, who oversees the Rehabilitation and Inspection Program for the Army Corps in the Honolulu district. "They took the Waimea project from the inactive list due to lack of maintenance and turned it into a very well maintained project in record time."
He explained that the Hanapepe and Waimea projects were on the list of unacceptably maintained levees released by the Army Corps last February and are being placed on the active list effective today.
Gayagas also noted that although the levees were on the unacceptable list, at no time did they pose a threat of imminent failure to the public.
