07-10-2023, 08:44 PM
(07-10-2023, 08:02 PM)SBH Wrote: They need to open it up and put holes in the almost two mile long breakwater like Magic Island at Ala Moana Beach Park and Ko’Olina lagoons.
The humbug is the bay stores, as in holds onto rather than releases, arsenic. And doing what you suggest would disturb it.
From.. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/it...e8be337b60
Distribution of Arsenic in the Sediments and Biota of Hilo Bay, Hawaii.
Which begins..
Sediment samples collected from the Waiakea Mill Pond, Wailoa River, and Hilo Bay were analyzed for arsenic. Arsenic was detectable in 10of II sediment samples, and ranged in concentration from 2 to 715 ppm.
The way I've heard it told the EPA would list Hilo Bay as a superfund site, but that to clean it up would create more problems than leaving it be.
More recently there's been studies that have focused on cesspool affluents.. but the underlying concern has always been arsenic.