{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"USCE hearing on Ma'alaea expansion plans into the 'Wall' surfing area","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36120/full/155%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36120","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"attribution":"University of Hawaii at Manoa Digital Image Collection","related":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/31488","format":"text/html"},"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"USCE hearing on Ma'alaea expansion plans into the 'Wall' surfing area"},{"label":"Subject","value":["Political participation--Hawaii","Shore protection--Hawaii"]},{"label":"Creator","value":"Kelly, John"},{"label":"Publisher","value":"Save Our Surf"},{"label":"Date","value":"1997-09-24"},{"label":"Format","value":"statement"},{"label":"Type","value":"Image"},{"label":"Extent","value":"3"},{"label":"Full Text","value":"SAVE OUR SURF'S PRESENTATION  AT USCE HEARING ON MA'ALAIA EXPANSION PLANS INTO THE \"WALL\" SURFING AREA\\n\\nby John Kelly, Spokesperson\\n\\nWednesday, September 24, 1997 \\n\\nALOHA FELLOW SURFERS AND FRIENDS from Save Our Surf!\\n\\nFrom the mid-60's we've stopped 38 major coastal interventions totaling nearly three billion dollars of taxpayers' money saved from destructive coastal interventions, all involving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Hawai'i.\\n\\nNow comes Ma'alaea again! The Corps wants to extend breakwaters and dredge Ma'alaea harbor's channels and basin into all the nearby surfing areas!\\n\\nThey want to extend the nearby  breakwater 620 feet further into the surfing area. How far is that?  Well  --  isn't a football field 100 yards long? Yes! So 620 feet is more than two football fields end-to-end!\\n\\nImagine two cement football fields in length dug out in the surfing area! That's what the Army Corps plans seaward of the existing south breakwater!!\\n\\nWHAT ELSE? To the existing channel, add another extension 610 feet long and 180 feet wide!   ANOTHER DOUBLE SIZE FOOTBALL FIELD of dredging the surfing area!\\n\\nWhat else? Add a still larger double-size football field channel to be dredged 750 feet long  --  that's two-and-a-half football fields in length  --  and eight feet deep as an access channel out into the wave-breaking area during our high-surf!\\n\\nIs that all? NO! They plan a 400-foot-long \"revetted mole\" seaward of the existing south breakwater for a TURNAROUND FOR BUSSES! OUT OF OUR SURFING AREA!\\n\\nIs that all? Hell No! They plan another revetted mole on the last (seaward) side  --  beyond the existing breakwater  --  where DLNR plans to build added\\n\\nBIRTHS;\\n\\nNow, dig this cover-up! Page 5 of the Army's 11-page Ma'alaea plans under the title: \"Surfing\" says in only four lines:\\n\\n\"The proposed action would result in the complete destruction of the off-the wall surf site and would result in the slight modification of Buzz's No. 1\\n\\n_________________________________________________________________\\n\\nNo. 2 sites.\" It concludes: \"There would be no impact to the Ma'alaea Pipeline or Buzz's No. 3!\"\\n\\nThat's FALSE! Pipeline waves would be seriously affected as they pass and refract from any new walls and dredgings at Ma'alaea! You're talking to several surfing generations since the 1930's! We know what you, the state and counties have done for big business profits at Sand Island, Waikiki, Ke'ehi Lagoon. the Big Island's Kona Coast, Ka Lae, and Hilo, at Nawililwili, Kaua'i, north, east and south Molokai,  --  and what you've tried to do but were stopped many times  --  in a 10-mile freeway out on the reef that would have destroyed surfing and fishing reefs from Black Point to Koko Head; destruction of surf at famed Makaha with an 800-foot long cement wall along the beach; at Waimea Bay; Kahuku; Kaimu, the famous Black Sand Beach on Hawai'i, and many others!\\n\\nNow, fellow surfers, boaters and all other local people  --  hear this: In 1970 SOS got a $140,000 appropriation for a 3-year Surf Parameters study. The University of Hawaii's Ocean Engineering Department hired several of us half time to carry out the study. Since then, we've been taking the one-and-only daily record of waves from the southern hemisphere at Black Point  --  the southern tip of O'ahu  --  including wave heights, periodicities, angles of approach and the wind conditions.\\t\\n\\nIn the only known record of its kind, we haven't missed a day in 26 years! DLNR and Army Corps have no such accurate wave data. Their offshore \"buoy system\" fails to differentiate mushy short-length local wind waves from the h age long-crested sets of swells generated thousands of miles away by rugged annual hemispheric storms generated by seasonal warm air displacement.\\n\\nWe mention this because only users are closely tuned to the subtle changes in local wave forms, changes in their angles of approach, combinations of wave sets coming from different storm areas thousands of miles away, wave heights and periodicities. Not a word of these important variable wave characteristics is mentioned in the Corps' public summary!\\n\\nThe lack of precise wave data and knowledge by the State and Army Corps accounts for the high number of their design failures costing millions of dollars in taxpayers money! SOS has countless documents, photos and other evidence\\n\\n_________________________________________________________________\\n\\nrevealing incredibly destructive coastal interventions since the illegal military overthrow of the Sovereign Nation of Hawai'i by the U.S. in 1893.\\n\\nOne large map by Dillingham Corporation reveals that today, not an inch of natural shoreline remains between Diamond Head and Pearl Harbor mostly due to Dilcos endless federal and state profit-making contracts for destructive coastal interventions paid for from citizens' taxes!\\n\\nThese documents contain evidence of incredible coastal destruction by government agencies working with private corporations whose profit motives override environmental conservation. Thus the Army Corps' record includes many stupid design failures!\\n\\nThese Ma'alaea plans can and must be stopped by all of us uniting together on the proven successful theme"}],"sequences":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/sequence/normal","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"Current Page Order","viewingDirection":"left-to-right","viewingHint":"paged","canvases":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/canvas/p1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"276-2264medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36119/full/155%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36119","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":2374,"height":3067,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/annotation/p0001-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36119/full/619%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2374,"height":3067,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36119","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/canvas/p1"}]},{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/canvas/p2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"276-2267medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36120/full/155%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36120","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":2325,"height":2997,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/annotation/p0002-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36120/full/621%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2325,"height":2997,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36120","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/canvas/p2"}]},{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/canvas/p3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"276-2270medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36121/full/165%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36121","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":2283,"height":2759,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/annotation/p0003-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36121/full/662%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2283,"height":2759,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/36121","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31488/canvas/p3"}]}]}]}