The use of geotextile tubes has been proven in the Yucatan Peninsula facing the Gulf of Mexico. The state is again replenishing lost sand but not in the most effective manner. What makes us think we don’t live in a semi-feudal culture? Visitors walk through shore break waves fronting the Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort after high tide, May 2017. I am convinced that any technology that the engineers and contractors of Hawaii are not used to is apparently good enough to be ignored, no matter what the rest of the world and mainland USA may be advancing. Why they don’t use a better technology that has been proven elsewhere and would be cheaper is very puzzling. They are at it again, using the same old technology that destroyed the sacred ocean in the first place. It was only the reputation of Waikiki, the open spaces, the sunshine, and the touristy atmosphere that continued to bring visitors, otherwise as far as a beach goes, the state had succeeded to kill it. When the soil was placed in Waikiki, it was soft, porous, and cushiony, allowing anyone to realize this was not the real thing one expects at a beach. Besides, one often wonders with what bias some environmental clearances are conducted. In that process, the state irreversibly damaged the ecology of the ocean.Īny environmental clearances missed the central point that the state was messing with life in the ocean. Only six to eight years ago, the state dredged the ocean offshore and brought in hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil to restore the vanishing beach and coastline that is the heart of Hawaii’s tourism. The state is on yet another mission to restore Waikiki Beach.
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