![]() ![]() The volcanic material removed, about 175,000 cubic yards, would be placed in areas of new lava or new beach owned by the state, away from the ocean. You guys don’t understand that we have been doing this from Day 1. “… Everybody is talking save the warm ponds. “This has changed my life more dramatically than 99 percent of you in this chatroom,” she said. That majority even included many of those who spoke about saving the new hot ponds those who had other concerns such as protecting coastline properties from erosion, preserving cultural areas to the south of the bay and safeguarding pre-existing warm springs not destroyed by the eruption and Bunny Harrington, the wife of a longtime commercial fisherman from Pohoiki who has had to endure longer, more costly and more dangerous trips because of the unusable boat ramp. ![]() Others, including the Hawai‘i Department of Health, say the hot ponds are hotbeds for bacteria and have become a nuisance, attracting undesirable activities such as nude swimming, littering and trespassing.īut the majority of the more than 90 participants of the meeting - conducted via Zoom by the state Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation and its consultant The Limtiaco Consulting Group - agreed the objective should be to remove the created black sand beach and return ocean access to Pohoiki for the fishermen, emergency rescue services and other commercial, recreational and food subsistence activities that have relied on the boat ramp for decades. ![]() Some people hoped the state Department of Land and Natural Resources would save the hot ponds that were created by the blocked ocean access, saying they draw hundreds to the Pohoiki area. (Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources) The Pohoiki boat ramp in Puna on the Big Island was landlocked by a new black sand beach thanks to a lava flow during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano. ![]()
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