Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 4, 1 April 1999 — Sewer hook-up [ARTICLE]

Sewer hook-up

Responding to the Feb. 1 Honolulu Advertiser article, "Homesteaders offered help with sewer costs," the only help Nānākuli and Wai'anae homesteaders need is to eliminate the

infiltrators, the city and County of Honolulu, from the trust lands. The county has no jurisdiction on Hawaiian Home Lands and neither does the state, I dare say. The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands thinks the use of federal funds for the sewer system will coerce and intimidate the homesteaders to tie into the sewer system. It will not. We had an identical situation on the Waimānalo reservation where the city and county claimed ownership of the entire sewer system on April 12, 1987. It seems the county is suffering

from a severe case of amnesia. Twelve years ago, it conceded it did not own the sewer hne. What is the county doing on trust lands in Nānākuli and Wai'anae? Edward "Papa" Inn Waimānalo OHA reserves the right to edit all letters for length, defamatory and libelous material, and other objectionable content, and reserves the right to print on a space available basis. Letters are authorized for publi-

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