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Kokua Line June Watanabe |
Road work in Mililani
will be done soonQuestion: Can you find out what's going on along Kamehameha Highway, between Lanikuhana Avenue and Meheula Parkway in Mililani? There are large, black, cylindrical, rubber-looking things on the side of the highway along with other construction equipment for four months or longer. I pass it everyday and there are no workers there, the materials are just lying there on the ground.
Answer: We asked the city in late January about what was happening there and received an answer last week.
In the meantime, you've probably noticed work in the area has resumed. The black cylinders are pipe segments for the $950,000 Kamehameha Trunk Sewer Reconstruction Project.
The project should be completed by March 5, said Carol Costa, director of the city Department of Customer Services.
We asked Costa to explain the timeline of the project.
The contractor, Wesco Environmental, was given a "notice to proceed" in December 2002, with work to be finished in June 2003, she said.
However, the "contractor left the site in October of 2003," Costa said, which was "considered to be an unexcused delay."
Because of that, the city informed the contractor "that we would be canceling the contract and collecting on his performance bond," she said.
Shortly after that, work resumed on Feb. 9, she said. However, the contractor was assessed penalty damages of $300 a day since June 30, 2003. At last tally, the total assessment was $57,000. Costa indicated the penalty may be appealed.
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A water fountain has been broken in H Building at Kalaheo High School for several months. A group of students decided it would be cool to break it and it hasn't been repaired. The nearest water fountains are far away and teachers get angry if you take too long to return to class when you try to get water. -- Frustrated Student(Unfortunately, the water fountain was damaged before, "put back," then revandalized, said Kalaheo Principal James Schlosser. A work order for repair again was turned in, and he hopes to have it done within the next couple of weeks.
(However, he said there are other water fountains throughout the campus, including another one in H Building just four classrooms away from the broken fountain. Bottled water also is available for purchase in vending machines, he said.
(The school has "dealt with" a group of students believed to have been involved in the vandalism, but the problem was not being able to pinpoint who the actual culprits were, Schlosser said.)
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Re: the answer that the proposal to allow the registration emblem to be placed inside a vehicle was rejected because of convertibles with retractable rear windows and because of theft problems (Kokua Line, Feb. 11): I just got back to Hawaii from five and a half years in San Antonio, Texas, where both vehicle tax and safety stickers are put on the lower front drivers side windshield -- inside. There is no crime wave of cars being broken into to get the stickers. -- Bill
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