Hawaii goes Old Testament....

What better way to top off 40 consecutive days and nights of rain (not joking) than with (drum roll)....



3 days of dumping raw sewage in the water?

Here's some pics from my apartment. The brown spot in the first one is probably about half kilometer from Waikiki.

Pic 1
Pic 2

 

I hope that is no where near the public beaches. Isn't that illegal dumping that sewage that close to the coast?

 

I always thought you resided in Japan? I would be a little scared to be in that apartment looking at that water...

Well thanks for sharing the pics!

 

Madhatter: The first pic is just down a bit from Waikiki -- no doubt the busiest beach in Hawaii (it's the main tourist trap). The other one is in front of a beach park, so there's very little swimmers. It's right next to the main shipping docks. It appears they're dumping shit into the docks now, but I've not heard anything for sure. Either way -- it looks disgusting no matter what it is. Water should not be brown in Hawaii.

Mark: My company relocated to Hawaii about a year and a half ago.

 

Water is never brown in Hawaii. It gotta be a septic tank leak from near the shipping docks.

 

wtf!? Have they ever done that "crap" before? Thats no way to win over tourists, thats for sure

 

My landlord is telling me that the brown is actually more runoff than sewage. It's been raining for 40 days though.... If it was only runoff, wouldn't it start to be brown like... 35 days ago?

 

I find it ironic, and slightly disgusting, that this thread is "sticky"


EDIT: Now i need to go wash my hands...

 

wowzers...40 days of rain...by chance your not building a incredibly large ferry?


Ryan

 

Why is this a sticky??

*Strange* April fools Joke or something from ASSEMbler?

 

I just went for a jog at Ala Moana. It's a mess. There's only 3 people in the water (it's actually one of the few relatively clean spots) but the bay right next to it is filthy. Has warning signs up -- no swimming or fishing. That only means one thing -- they dumped poo in it.

 

Did someone say pooh in the water?

 

Why was this thread stickied???

 

Isn't that kind of thing illegal, dumping raw sewage into the ocean like that? I know the laws are different from state to state, but of all places you'd think Hawaii would want to protect the beaches and oceans.

 

Actually, it diludes relatively quickly. Even after dumping thousands of gallons of piss and shit in one spot, it will be safe to swim in after a few days. And as for it being legal or not -- the city is the ones that did it. It's either there, or on land.

 

Gaijin, how about changing your location to "Island full of shit drivers...surrounded by shit."?

 

The used to (still do AFAIK) do that in Vancouver a lot. Of course, that was Canada.

 

Well, it depends on the volume of sewage. If you say dump sewage into a river, the natural bacteria will decompose the sewage as it travels down the river. However the more you dump in the longer it takes, and thus more of the river is "dead space." So you have this area of deadness where there's no fish and such, then 100 ft later all the sewage is decomposed and the fish and everything is ok.

Problem is the process of decomposition ups the oxygen content of the water, which causes alge to grow. The alge in turn uses up all the oxygen, making the water stagnant. That's why when you see a pond that has an overgrowth of alge there's never any fish in it, theres not a high enough level of oxygen in the water and the fish suffocate to death.

Come to think of it the one time I went to Hawaii I noticed there was a lot of alge in the water off the beach (it was so long ago, not sure the name of the beach we were at, but it was in the touristy part of the Big Island.)

We get the same stuff over here where I live, so much that sometimes the froth on the water is yellow- that's bacteria processing raw sewage, and is dangerous to swim in. But people swim in it anyway. (blagh!)

 

Uhm.. i thought alge would produce oxigen too?

 

@gajinPunch

Best wishes from Hilo
We have nice weather here and it's sunny since 2 weeks. Before that it was also raining a lot of time.

I heard already that you have so shitty weather over there. 2 other german guys are studying at the Pacific University and they said that the streets and their lobby are under water already.

Better times will come soon

See ya