Expiration date: 11/22/2018
Interested parties are hereby notified that an application has been received for a Department of the Army (DA) permit for certain work in waters of the United States as described below and shown on the enclosed drawings. Ms. Suzanne Case of the Department of Land and Natural Resources proposes to maintain the Ala Wai Canal and the Manoa-Palolo Drainage Canal (MPDC) including maintenance dredging, the replacement of a 750-foot section of the Ala Wai Canal wall, and the removal of Hawaiian Electric Company’s (HECO’s) cables and concrete panels in the Ala Wai Canal between the Kapahulu Library and the Ala Moana Boulevard Bridge at 21.283122°, -157.826563°,TMKs (1) 2-3-036:000 and (1) 2-3-034:000 and in the Manoa-Palolo Drainage Ditch between Date Street and the Ala Wai Canal. The purpose of the maintenance activities is to maintain the Ala Wai Canal, an important sedimentation basin, drainage way, and aquatic recreation site in Honolulu, and to remove physical obstacles to future maintenance dredging in the Ala Wai Canal.