Heavy rains added to the causes of a dam breach at Kaloko Reservoir in Kilauea early yesterday morning, sending millions of gallons of water down Wailapa Stream and sweeping a cluster of homes off their foundations, resulting in one confirmed death, even as a search for seven others continues. By yesterday afternoon, the body of a male, around 30 years old, was found about a mile off the coast of Kilauea, according to Coast Guard officials. Coast Guard aircraft had been searching the area around Kilauea Bay all day. The recovery of the body may be connected with the search for the seven missing people. There were unconfirmed reports the seven people were staying in a compound of homes located near the streambed when the surging waters smashed into the structures and took them off their foundations. The exact number of homes was not known.
(Source: Garden Island News)
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1 North Shore Kauai » Blog Archive » Ka Loko civil suits set for 2009 // Apr 18, 2007 at 9:47 am
[...] killed seven people and caused millions of dollars of property damage on March 14, 2006, when hundreds of thousands of gallons of water roared down the Wailapa Stream [...]
2 North Shore Kauai » Blog Archive » Businessman named interim DLNR head // May 2, 2007 at 6:37 am
[...] was visible in his Grove Farm job after the March 14, 2006, breach of Ka Loko Dam, which killed seven people on Kauai. He said at that time that Grove Farm had started taking [...]
3 Ka Loko investigation can continue | North Shore Kauai // Nov 20, 2008 at 5:46 pm
[...] Courthouse that a grand jury was set to convene and indict Jimmy Pflueger for his role in the 2006 Ka Loko Reservoir Dam disaster, a motion from his attorney seeking to recuse state Attorney General Mark Bennett and disqualify [...]
4 Pflueger indicted in Kaloko dam breach | North Shore Kauai // Nov 22, 2008 at 6:21 pm
[...] A Kaua’i grand jury today indicted former car dealer Jimmy Pflueger on criminal manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges in connection to the deadly Kaloko Dam collapse that killed seven people in 2006. [...]
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