Following 15 months since it last inspected the Ka Loko Reservoir Dam, the state is waiting until next Friday to decide whether its engineers will conduct a second structural assessment.
The last time the Department of Land and Natural Resources inspected the dam was Oct. 10, 2006, when state engineers conducted phase I of its post-breach [...]

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Key Witnesses Speak Out for the First Time; Dam’s Owner James Pflueger Goes on the Record with Hawaii Reporter; Kauai County Mystery Unsolved; Government on the Hot Seat; Families Still Wait for Justice

22-year-old Christina ‘Sunny’ McNees was captured by a friend on video last March talking about the meaning of life, her belief in God [...]

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Results Not Yet Released to Public
The state-sanctioned independent civil investigation into the deadly Kaloko Dam collapse on Kauai is finished. The investigation documents activity leading to the breach of the Kaloko reservoir, but the investigation’s conclusions are a mystery, at least for now.
Kaloko burst March 14, 2006. An estimated 400 million gallons of [...]

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More than nine months after the Ka Loko Reservoir breach created an environmental disaster that killed seven, the episode looms large and remains contentious.
Bruce Fehring — who lost two relatives and five friends who lived in his homes on the Wailapa Stream that were swept away in the flooding — filed a lawsuit against retired [...]

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Tourist satisfaction declined in the first half of this year
Although visitors were highly satisfied with their experience in Hawaii in the first half of 2006, their approval ratings declined from the year before, apparently the result of weather-related problems that plagued the state early this year.
Almost two-thirds of U.S. and Canadian visitors rated their most [...]

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