Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 7, 2020

Nānākuli Flood Control Channel Drone Surveying

(Nānākuli, Oʻahu) – As part of the ongoing Nānākuli Flood Control Channel improvements in Nānākuli, Oʻahu, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, through its contractor Hawaii Engineering Group, will conduct drone surveying beginning on August 10, 2020. The work will last for approximately two weeks.

Residents in the area should anticipate visible drone surveying of the channel’s laterals between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The contractor will begin the drone work on the mauka side and make its way makai. 

The Nānākuli Flood Control Channel project began in July 2020 and will include concrete relining, concrete spall repair, concrete crack repair, and chain link fence repairs to roughly a mile of the channel. Work in totality is anticipated to be completed in mid-2021, weather permitting.

For more information, call (808) 620-9500.

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About the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands:

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands carries out Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole’s vision of rehabilitating native Hawaiians by returning them to the land. Established by U.S. Congress in 1921, with the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, the Hawaiian homesteading program run by DHHL includes management of over 200,000 acres of land statewide with the specific purpose of developing and delivering homesteading.

Media Contact:
Cedric Duarte
Information and Community Relations Officer
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
(808) 620-9591
[email protected]