The Sand Island Waste Water Management is trucking their waste to our Waianae Waste Water treatment. But let's backup a little. Need to know that we Waianae residence are not all hooked up to this multi-million dollar treatment plant--our tanks are always half full. So why was it built in the first place? When the money should have been given to Sand Island in the 70's?
Poor planning, military intent, dumb politicians, smart developers, civilian monkey's? These are irrelavant.
The sewers spills into our ocean just as it does in Malibu where the best surfing spots are. Surfers do get sick and die early in California. And because they don't have too much competition they are nameless and therefore we don't know who they are, those that die early.
Need to pay attention to this story:
Leeward Oahu residents say they've seen a rise in staph infections and they fear the source is one the more popular beaches on the westside. The health issue has surfaced at neighborhood board meetings. This is Pokai Bay in Leeward Oahu a beautiful stretch of white sandy beach and crystal clear water.
"Looks can be deceiving," said Kiyomi Stanley.
Or is it?
"It looks beautiful but it's real real dirty," said Stanley.
For several months area resident have reported contracting "staph infections" from Pokai Bay.
"Bigger like wider and larger infection yeah it was staph infection," said Stanley. "It came big like that look it even got another one here look."
She's not alone.
"Oh was nasty, never seen something like that," said Clement Kamakea pointing to a scar on his leg.
"Took me one month for the thing to heal so I stop cleaning the beaches because I got kind of scared yeah," said Bernadine Kamakea who also suffered from an infection on her foot.
"Must be from over here because I was coming here every morning I was here in the water and then one morning just one big puss just went pop out," added Clement.
Others believe bacteria is coming from storm runoff. A portion of the bay is protected by a seawall so water is stagnant. Some say the source is on the shoreline.
"It's still underneath the sand so everytime Mother Nature comes in and cleans out our sand it's kicking up all the silt. And we got a lot of kids out here too so it's kind of dangerous," said Nanakuli resident Joseph Mamoa. "Yeah I'm concerned."
The Kamakeas have even seen fecal matter in the ocean.
"I see that plenty times, I tell you me and my sister was in the water on that corner she tell look at that I was trying to push it away with my fins," said Clement. "Human waste and the thing go all in the rocks and then come and land."
The State Health Department said: "It is highly unlikely that staph infections are being caused by the water at Pokai Bay. Staph infections are caused by person-to-person or person-to-surface contact that often occurs during sports and other recreational activities."
"I would love if they would come to test out here definitely," said Makaha resident Christina Keaulana. "People here, they're ocean people, they're water people and t heir life is being in the water so it would definitely be worthwhile to get tested out here."
Health officials say to prevent staph infections, people are advised to get treatment early, keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered and don't share personal items.
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The EPA listing is fairly new, and it mixes household and construction debris--so difficult to get past the list and force the US military to separate out the nuclear Isotopes--especially U-235 and U238 from the trash heap.
Waimanalo gulch has a buzzer that goes off should the refuse trucks bring in nuclear waste. Then it is taken into town somewhere in sand island, I believe.
So most of the construction companies maninly truckers with a third grade reading comprehension drive their family trucking business to their homes, to by pass the buzzer out here in Waianae. And they know, however, to stay within the NRC rules and that is to surface dump not dig a whole.
Mauka Makai, as we all know ends up in the ocean, but before that it runs through our childrens play grounds.