09-09-2007, 06:18 AM
diverting lava seems to be taboo with our local government. yes the liabilities are surely tricky, but that is more likely because of the lack of case law than anything else. I wonder how many home owners in all the surrounding subdivisions.. orchidland, paradise park, hawaiian beaches.. would sign a waiver allowing the county to proceed.. without liability.. with lava diversion in a senerio where ainaloa was threatened and the county proposed diverting the lava away from there with an eye towards keeping in a corridor south of ainaloa and then after it crossed 130 south of paradise park, hoping that it would go peacefully to the sea. how many would sign away their right to seek compensation for possible damages from this eruption in the future, if knowing from prior experience that if this eruption were to go on for a long time the flow field will eventually widen and possible encompass one or more of those subdivisions?