Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes.
Yes. And you were saying that they made a pipe actually, that even came out into the
Ke‘eke‘e area later right
Yes. It’s somewhere around here, at Pä ‘A‘ali‘i, and then later, they went out to Small
He‘ewai, you can see the pipe on the map.
Okay. By Pä ‘A‘ali‘i first
Yes. What happened…they built a concrete cistern, water pond, concrete.
Yes. It was an open pond or was it
Open.
Okay.
It’s all lined with concrete and the gravity flow would go in there. And then he built an old
Fairbanks diesel engine, one piston engine, diesel engine. Pump the water up, further up.
Up to Humu‘ula
No. Was up to Waiki‘i station.
Oh yeah, Small Waiki‘i is down below.
Is that where Ishizu was
Ishizu was up Humu‘ula, and this is Waiki‘i.
Herbert, had the pump house
Oh, yes. The water reached Herbert’s house, from there we pump it up.
Then you pump up to Waiki‘i.
Yes, we pumped it up to Pä Kila and Number 8, and then on to Pu‘u Anuanu which is
about seven thousand foot elevation. That’s the highest point we got, that the pump can
go.
Herbert Ishizu
Uh-hmm.
He was living out at Waiki‘i
He lived in Waimea, but he goes up everyday.
At one time Herbert Ishizu lived there at Pä ‘A‘ali‘i (Old ‘A‘ali‘i) for a short while. During
the war years I used to go over there pump water. Black out days you know, you got to
stay over night.
Yes, yes.
And then after a while they gave me a car with the head light, [gestures] blackout
headlight with a little opening.
Just a little
Just a little opening. You only can see just ahead of you. You got to know your roads.
And it was the old road or
Pasture road.
The old pasture road. Past Holoholokü like that out, go up to the mountain side.
Yes.
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