Plan to clean up polluted Ala Wai canal with thousands of mudballs
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2022
- An ambitious project aims to clear up one of Oahu's most polluted waterways: the Ala Wai Canal.
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My uncles used to swim in a crystal clear 20 feet deep Ala Wai, way way back in the days (early 1920's?). The tourist used to toss coins off the bridge and my uncles would swim down and get it.
what a dream. they lived in a good era. by the time i went to ala wai elementary school in the mid 80s it was known as doo doo water.
Wikipedia says the Ala Wai was made in 1928 so he could have indeed swam in it in the 1920s.
@@alexcarter8807 would like to see it clean.
The real issue with the dirty Ala Was Canal is that from time to time, the main sewage pipes from all the nearby shops and condos would break or leak and millions of raw sewage gets poured into the canal. When that happens, all the clean up efforts will be back to square one.
Maybe we need bigger mud balls, then. But an " A" for effort and ingenuity. Create on people! ✌️🤗
Didn't one of those raw sewage episodes famously happen while Mufi Hanneman was mayor?
Or was that during the Jeremy Harris administration?
True. And may I add fighting the effects is silly in itself. Guess someone profits from it.
Also all people's fertilisers and weedkillers and all else gets washed into the ala wai from the mauka sides. Thousands of properties with perhaps green grass.
I've seen another technique in Japan where they made net sack curtains, with many individual pouches, filled with charcoal pieces. They strategically placed them stretched out in a canal, where they wouldn't be disturbed. It actually did its job absorbing pollutants and certain bacteria. Just a suggestion. Mahalo.
That makes sense, what they doing here us stupid. Watch, we will soon see somebody seek funding for such, then they will take the money for themselves.
I grew up in Kapahulu. The water was pilau as long as I can remember, especially at the end by the library. If this works, that would be awesome.
If it was done by the state it would be 10x the price and a big disaster. Thank God its not being done by the state !
better idea than rail.....
Finally someone has the balls to clean up the water in Oahu. 😉🤙
The sad part, the STATE is NOT lifting a finger or helping with the clean up.
Unbelievable that a simple solution exist and the govt does nothing.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom, you got that right!
I love the Ala Wai. Every morning when I was there and was a runner, I would run the length of the Ala Wai early. Lots of ducks, tilapia, & humans with their dogs. Oh yeah, I'd run back,too.
As a lover of Hawaii, I'd like to donate. Who is in charge of raising money?
Thank you all.
The “Before” example was better than the “After” picture. Congrats.
😅
I was thinking the same thing
Should’ve used the money they using for the rail for do this instead
Really? what about keeping pollutants from getting in the water to begin with? Oh I forgot..that might disrupt the tourists from flushing their toilets. Can't have that can we.
Just throw some mud, cover the floor of the Ala wai so nothing can live in there, and then we get more mess. Annual sewage dumps, yah know. 🤣🤣🤣 I agree with you 100 percent.
What about the continuous inflow of pollution? Remedy the pollution problems.That’s going take a lot of balls!
Exactly, this is pointless. It's a way for these guys to seek publicity.
Where is that mud from?
What about cleaning up extremely polluted and toxic Pearl Harbor ?
I know Hawaiian electric power plants intake cold ocean water pumped into power plant to cool its broilers then pump out the warm water back into the ocean. So why not take that warm water pumping out back into the ocean into the alawai to create a current (one way) and push or flush out the stagnant water to the other end of the canal? That way there’s moving clean water flowing thru the canal? Hawaiian electric already pumping IN just pump OUT into the canal to creat a better environment in that canal
Gotta handle the issues of where the bacteria comes from in the first place, our sewers
@@AKFF320 it’s the run off from the mountains into the canals and streams from the rain and some public polluting. City’s storm drains flow into canals and steams that feed into the ala wai canal! No movement to little movement makes the water stagnant and the result is what you have now! Ala wai canal doesn’t have movement or very little it have doesn’t do much to circulate that large body of water. Just cause you have two openings to the ocean doesn’t mean it has movement for clean circulation. Look at Pearl Harbor you have the same problem but bigger.
@@AKFF320 and it’s NOT our sewers that’s flowing into the canal!! Common! This ain’t China or India or any third wold country. They have laws for that! It’s illegal for that to happen.
Love this idea. I've seen some improvement. Kids would love to volunteer. It's worth the time and dollars, but the community involvement draws me. Can't wait to see the opae return. Thanks a bunch guys ☺️
Why does the before pic look better than the after pic?
Is anyone aware that the Ala Wai project was first considered around 1910. The area around the Ala Wai, basically Waikiki, was originally swampy. there were people around there raising vegetables and the like, and even one who raised ducks. But no one wanted the land because of all the mosquitoes. By 1927 the Army Corps of Engineers and the Hawaii Dredging completed the project to drain the swampy Waikiki. many locals swam and paddled the Ala Wai. By 1929 the canal was declared too dirty to swim in. But when people say they want to clean it up. No matter how noble the cause, the Ala Wai is a drainage canal...
Once again a good example of people exerting time and money as well as other resources to fight effects.
Why and what makes the ala wai so toxic?
Focus the energy on the cause.
No matter what you do you make little or no difference by fighting the effects.
Societies around the world constantly expend it's efforts to correct effects instead of causes.
Though this is highly profitable for some.
Malama!! amazing
Long term solution grow oysters in the canal
If this can clean the whole canal with just 1 million dollars that’s amazing. Get these folks some cash!
Your GOVERNOR and his criminal friends already pocketed the money.
@@kimberleyike2168 that literally makes no sense. Im saying they should get money. Not that there was money and it somehow disappeared. There is no money for anyone to pocket in this scenario. your jumping the gun here nothings even happened yet.
Why on earth wouldn't the state finance that?
Kapalama Canal could use BIO Balls Th Queens bath in Nuuanu could also use it
They have been trying to clean up that canal since I first came to Hawaii in 1985.
What we need is a stopping of the causes not fighting pointlessly the effects. Natures does heal itself if we stop polluting further.
Why don’t we just have festivals along side the ala wai, such a beautiful sitting.
I can't wait! I'm gonna go swimming now!
State is not involved in what is clearly their responsibility.
They couldn’t be bothered I guess.
Love that something is being done for this Beautiful waterway Will this work for Kaneohe Bay?Would love to see the coral gardens come back
I remember when had choke jellyfish in the ala wai.. You could pick it up and not get stinged. We would throw em at each other and they would blow up like jello. So horrible..
Yup right after soccer games or practice
Nevermind the jellyfish…
Wash your olos….
F’nclassic….
put in solar powered aireator buoys
I seen a homeless man taking a dump in the ala wai this past weekend 💩
All the time
Nah.
He was just "donating" canal bacteria in his own "mudballs".
A sewer treatment facility to cycle the alawai
will make as clean as Kaneohe Bay... Pilau
Why not oysters or clams?
Need Substrate
Not that I'd ever go in but Was always curious how polluted this water actually is considering how many fish, crabs, and critters seem to thrive within.
How can we get involved? Social media or organization
The aliens sent balls to Earth atmosphere like this also.
I wanna swim in the Ala Wai!
Get big moi with over grown stomachs in there. I swam and stand up paddle this bugga was good fun never got sick.
1M sounds pretty reasonable after we paid Trillions for the Rail 😒
Here is a thought, like a baker…is it possible to find a good commercial mixer with a good commercial dispenser to help mix then form the mud balls in a mass-like production quantity? It could speed up the process and get more area covered within a specific time frame. Maybe people can donate money such equipment needed. For a great Eco thought.
I think every idea brought forward is good, but to me the most important contribution is the community involvement which supports kuleana, or a feeling of accomplishment when the goals are achieved. The human element of hands forming these mudballs also help to dispell the feeling of helplessness. As we come out of this pandemic, this is a great way for families and friends to gather and bring healing to ourselves, as well as for the land, sea and ocean creatures. So pono the way they are doing it now. Mahalo nui loa✌️😊🤙🙏☮️
Wat dah stock name🤑
DooDoo Balls are us.
❤️🌺❤️
I eat okie everyday
I say just trow oysters in cages like the farms through out alawai. And just no eat up bumbai you turn green.
Why can't they just disease the bacteria directly into the water via a hose resting on the bottom of the canal? Why are mudballs needed? Seems like a lot of extra work and money when the bacteria could just be sent directly to the canal mud?
Non-profit doesn't mean someone's not lining their pockets. $1 million for mud and you have volunteers?
Maybe 100 years from now😒
The before picture looks better.
Isn't the nice older gentleman still cleaning up the Ali Wai? Stop stealing his thunder.
How about actually dredging the canal itself, this way it’s cleaning up whats at the bottom, then have a flat bottom barge with tons and tons of this mud slowly releasing it as it floats down the canal that would be more decisive in getting the waterway clean than just people throwing balls of mud in the water. And Secondary since it’s a canal, it should be able to be sealed off at the ends drain the water and actually go in there and dredging clean, then putting in the bacterial mud it so this way the new water coming in will be fresh and fishable and usable. If we can send billions and billions of dollars overseas I’m sure we could spend some millions on fixing and Rejuvenating a canal. Cause 7 years is a joke.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom I actually put up a solution…. But ask yourself this, who created the problem in the first place, and why has it taken so long for anyone to do something about it. And we’re all the politicians all in this? Sitting at home on their hands, why they hope volunteers do it for free.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom your stupid. You think throwing mud in the canal, with all the sewage released every year will make a difference? Take your aloha and shove it brah. Your too mental to realize reality, you idiot!
Water looks cleaner in the before image 🤔
Yeah I notice that too but the after image has sand which the guy was saying was caused by the fishes are coming back due to the mudballs and making it's home there.
Ah! That famous song of the '50's. Doo doo wata, doo doo wata, doo doo wata. 😆
European countries have cleaned there extreme toxic rivers. Learn from people who have experience and success. Stop fighting effects.
I contributed by hitting golf balls in
Wow, they think it can be safe for swimming again one day... I got one thing to say about that.... YOU FIRST. haha.
This “mud-ball” plan smells a lot like the Aloha Stadium “rust-protects-the-iron” plan. 😏
🤣
Near the ocean.🤣
It's the bacteria if you understand it a probiotic for the canal. Helps the canal creatures too.
@@malekodesouza7255 the ocean needs help with cleaning too.
Throwing mud in muddy water. Wtf lol 🤔
IT'S TOO LATE
8🤡8 gov. still under confusion since 1959...
Back to skoo mandates must be inforced🤪
You guys are to late 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒
Are you guys disgusting you guys really want to swim in ala Wai?
Everyone has their hand out for cash. I don't care what you say, I'm never swimming in there.
Do you have permits to toss the balls in state waterway?
Is there credible studies on your claims and environmental studies?
I didn't think so.