The Adopt a Stream Program is a city program where citizens participate in cleaning streams of litter and other potential pollutants. The Department of Public Works supplies all the equipment: trash bags, rubber gloves, educational pamphlets and other supplies, and it collects the full trash bags. Volunteers are needed to walk the streams collecting the litter and bagging it. Volunteers must where sturdy boots (not rubba slippahs) and will be given safety instructions.
The Kahawai Stream (near Frankie's) has been adopted by the Waimanalo Watershed
Council, and has been cleaned several times in the past year, most recently on
April 20. The cleanups are coordinated by Usha Prasad of the Waimanalo
Watershed Council. Others who participated in the April 20 cleanup, and
previous cleanups were: Penny Levin, Will Freeman, and Greg Field of the
Watershed Council, Nia Manupule, John Fitial, Lilian Mad and King Aumiua of
Hawaii Job Corps, Sandy Yagi and Suzanne Say of Unisyn, Syd Kraul of Waimanalo
School, Byron Syrinski, Cynthia Ahn, Nathaniel Gohiev, Nancy Glover, Lisa
Ferentinos, Jim Andrews, Vicki Feeney, Kevin Feeney, Jane Gouveia, and
Representative Eve Anderson. Mahalo to all who participated and lent support.
To get more information or to volunteer on future cleanups call the Watershed Council at 259-9558. Hawaii Job Corps is adopting a stream, and will soon begin periodic cleanings. If you belong to an organization or a business that would like to adopt a stream, contact Bob Rock of the Department of Public Works at 527-5699.