Honu'apo Park Resource Management Plan

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Honuÿapo Park Final Resources Management Plan which had a combined capacity of 2,000 gallons of water per minute. The water pumped from these wells was slightly brackish. The wells at the former mill are currently unused. The sugar plantation also used a surface water collection system and tunnels, drilled horizontally into the mountainside, to tap perched groundwater. The closest active tunnel to Honuÿapo is the Mountain House Tunnel, located above Näÿälehu, at an altitude of 3,097 feet. According to Stearns & Macdonald, the tunnel had a yield of nearly 1.3 million gallons per day, the largest of any tunnel in Kaÿü. Area land owners are currently working with the Department of Land and Natural Resources to permit the use of tunnel water for agricultural purposes. Camping and picnic table at Whittington Beach Park 2.8 Circulation and Access Page 21 Electricity is provided by Hawaiÿi Electric Light Company (HELCO) at Whittington Beach Park for lighting of the existing pavilions and restrooms. There is no lighting in other areas of the park. Aboveground electric lines are present along Hawaiÿi Belt Road. There are currently two main access roads to the park from Hawaiÿi Belt Road. One road, on the south end of the park, at the base of the hillside, is paved and provides access to Whittington Beach Park. The beach park access road intersects Hawaiÿi Belt Road at an acute angle at the bottom of a slope; consequently, lack of visibility and downhill driving can make access to the park dangerous. There are two parking areas at Whittington Beach Park, offering ample parking space for park users. The second access road to the property is unpaved, located to the north of Honuÿapo Estuary, and is referred to as “Mill Ditch Road” because it follows the alignment of the former ditch used by the Hutchinson Sugar Plantation to transport waste cane fiber to the ocean. Mill Ditch Road is the main access to coastal areas in the northern portions of the park. A coastal four-wheel-drive (4WD) trail provides access along the shoreline of Honuÿapo Park. Local residents use that area of the park for fishing and gathering. There is no formal parking area in this part of the site and 4WD vehicles generally park on the pähoehoe lava along the coast.
2.9 Visual Resources Due to the relatively level topography of the property and the low level vegetation near the shoreline, coastal areas of Honuÿapo Park offer sweeping views of the hillsides of Mauna Loa and the Pohina Cliffs, particularly in areas north of the estuary. These views provide a striking panorama of the rugged and wild beauty of Kaÿü. Honuÿapo Park Final Resources Management Plan The open landscape of Kaÿü, with moderately sloping hillsides and open vegetation, provides panoramic views Scenic view of Mauna Loa hillsides from Honuÿapo Park of Mauna Loa and coastal areas at various locations along Hawaiÿi Belt Road throughout the district. A scenic lookout is located at the top of the Pohina Cliffs, to the south of the park, and offers sweeping views of the Kaÿü landscape and the Honuÿapo property. 2.10 Park Visitation There are currently only two developed County Beach Parks in Kaÿü: Punaluÿu and Whittington. They also are the only two coastal recreational areas in Kaÿü with camping and pavilion facilities available to the general public (Volcanoes National Park has hiking-accessible campsites at Keauhou, Halapë and Kaluÿe). According to County Parks and Recreation maintenance personnel, at least one of the three pavilions at Punaluÿu is rented for parties every weekend. Whittington Beach Park is visited primarily by local Kaÿü residents that use the park for fishing, camping, picnicking, and parties. Few Hawaiÿi tourists currently stop at Whittington Beach Park. A large number of tourists drive through Kaÿü from Kona on their way to the Hawaiÿi Volcanoes National Park (HAVO). In the past 10 years, annual recreational visits to Hawaiÿi Volcanoes National Park have fluctuated between about 1 to 1.5 million. About 20 percent of these recreational visitors arrived at HAVO by tour bus and the rest in personal vehicles. About 30,000 to 35,000 personal vehicles carrying about 85,000 visitors arrive at HAVO on a monthly basis. Assuming that one third of those vehicles come from the Hilo side of the island and the other two thirds from the Kona side, approximately 55,000 visitors in 20,000 vehicles pass through Kaÿu on their way from Kona to Volcano on a monthly basis. Few of these visitors stop to visit Honuÿapo. Page 22
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APPENDIX D Honuÿapo Park Implement
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