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The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for areas of Haiku and Pauwela downstream of the Kaupakalua Dam.
Maui County warned that residents evacuating their homes due to flooding in the Haiku area should not return until it is safe.
Residents have been stranded after heavy rains and flash flooding crested the Kaupakalua Reservoir and Dam and Haiku, sending fast-flowing floodwaters across roads and heavily damaging or destroying half a dozen homes, the county said.
Authorities have told everyone in the vicinity of Kaupakalua Dam and makai of Kaupakalua Road to leave the area immediately, as well as people near heavily flowing streams.
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Swift-moving floodwater sweeps over Hana Highway near West Kuiaha Road on Monday afternoon, cutting off passage in several directions and forcing some residents to find shelter for the evening. The Maui News / KEHAULANI CERIZO photo
HAIKU “Unprecedented rainfall” sent floodwaters over the edge of a dam in Haiku Monday afternoon, damaging half a dozen homes, destroying a bridge and forcing the evacuation of residents downstream.
Firefighters responded to more than a dozen calls from residents surrounded by rising floodwaters.
Shortly before 3 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service warned of “imminent failure” of the Kaupakalua Dam in Haiku.
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