Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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That’s right.
That didn’t go through very well.
That’s right. I think that the story that I got was they had to bring water from the Kohala
mountain and they had the flume coming down in here.
‘Ae.
They were also using pumped brackish water and the water got too salty so that’s why
they gave up.
This, is the flume that Hind had built. That’s the flume line here, here’s your stone wall
again, that was the makai boundary
Yes.
The flume cut through there and it came up into the Kohala, Keanu‘i‘omanö, the stream
out that side.
Yes.
What you’re saying is what we heard too, is that it got too salty, and because they…
Not enough water from here.
Not enough flow, that’s right. In fact I understand, when they finished the flume in about
1906 or something, there was a period of drought. They got the flume finished and there
was no water almost, to run down.
If somebody went and checked all this thing out, you might find some remains of the
flume.
Oh, yes.
I remember during my time, I’ve seen the remains.
Sections where you could tell the trench or something like that
Yes.
May I ask you, just down in here. There’s a proposal now, this parcel here which is really
Waiköloa mauka of the Puakö area here.
Yes.
Right on…that’s the boundary. Do you remember the old Government Road that followed
the boundary out here, at Lähuipua‘a Then it cuts down Did you run pipi out here at
all
No. [thinking] Puakö Road, the only one that I can remember is that from Kawaihae to
Puakö, there was a road going...
Yes, that’s right.
From there on, no, I never went.
That’s the old road marked here on the map.
Yes, along the ocean.
Near the ocean, that’s right. Did you folks use that road sometime
Did the ranch put that in
No, there was an earlier one, this was an earlier Government Road.
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