From the Civil Beat article:
>Pohoiki was never just a boat ramp. It was the east side’s lifeline — connecting subsistence fishers, charter crews and families whose lives move with the tide.
This section goes on and on without mentioning that Pohoiki was a major surfing and swimming site. Far more people went to Pohoiki for ocean recreation than did they for fishing, though this is not to discount the economic value of Pohoiki as boat ramp for East Hawaii's fishing interests. Interest in restoring Pohoiki was as much for ocean recreation as it was for a new boat ramp.
>A public notice from FEMA last year...warned that Pohoiki lies in a flood zone “subject to future flooding events.”
Flooding from where? Puna has no rivers or streams, and never will have them. The entire Puna district is porous lava; even during heavy rainfall water typically disappears rapidly. Pohoiki's viability relates 100% to ocean actions, and possibly new lava events, not heavy rain and floods from upland washing through Pohoiki into the ocean.
>Pohoiki was never just a boat ramp. It was the east side’s lifeline — connecting subsistence fishers, charter crews and families whose lives move with the tide.
This section goes on and on without mentioning that Pohoiki was a major surfing and swimming site. Far more people went to Pohoiki for ocean recreation than did they for fishing, though this is not to discount the economic value of Pohoiki as boat ramp for East Hawaii's fishing interests. Interest in restoring Pohoiki was as much for ocean recreation as it was for a new boat ramp.
>A public notice from FEMA last year...warned that Pohoiki lies in a flood zone “subject to future flooding events.”
Flooding from where? Puna has no rivers or streams, and never will have them. The entire Puna district is porous lava; even during heavy rainfall water typically disappears rapidly. Pohoiki's viability relates 100% to ocean actions, and possibly new lava events, not heavy rain and floods from upland washing through Pohoiki into the ocean.