State Land Board To Decide On Dredging Of New Beach At Pohoiki - Honolulu Civil Beat
State Land Board To Decide On Dredging Of New Beach At Pohoiki
The state seeks a waiver to dredge a channel through black sand deposited by the 2018 Kilauea eruption.
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When Hawaii County Civil Defense reopened portions of the isolated Puna coastline after the 2018 Kilauea eruption, the public discovered a strikingly beautiful new black sand beach had appeared from the sea, and sand and rock had inundated what was once a heavily used boat ramp at Pohoiki.
Now the state Department of Land and Natural Resources is moving forward with a plan to dredge a channel down the middle of that new beach to restore access to the boat ramp, a project urgently needed by the owners of the fishing boats that used to launch there.