2012 Workday - Saturday September 29th, 9-12 more details
Gallery of last year's workday - Thank you to all who took part in a successful community effort.
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2012 Workday - Saturday September 29th, 9-12 more details Gallery of last year's workday - Thank you to all who took part in a successful community effort. |
Map: the brown line is the route currently open to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Entry points are located at Lindsey Rd., Waimea Nature Park, Opelo Rd., and Kahawai St.
2012 - Residents and visitors are enjoying the newest section of trail, opened in Sept. 2011.
Sept. 24, 2011 - Community work day. Spread chips over1/2 mile of trail surface.
August 6, 2011 - Work day chipping dead brush and downed trees.
July 2011 - Pedestrian/Bike gate installed at Kahawai St. entrance.
May 24, 2011 - Trail is passable from Lindsey Road to Kahawai Street.
April 4, 2011 - Installed fencing along Kanu O Ka Aina, Opelu Rd campus
February 9, 2011 - Meeting at the Waimea Middle School cafeteria. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an update on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that was recently completed for the project. The Draft EA is available at your local library. Topics addressed at the meeting include the EA findings, project phasing, estimated
November 30, 2009 - Today's meeting notes include a good overview of the trail history, from our meeting with the Mayor.
November 24, 2009 - Here are some before, during and after shots of our work day today on the Waimea Trails and Greenways. This was 35 HPA class of 2012 who spread their work out over several community endeavors today. They worked to remove branches that have been accumulating and clogging up the Waikoloa Stream over the past year and a quarter. It was a great day for the trail and a great day for Waimea. Mahalo to all the students and their teachers who helped. Mahalo to David Higgins and his son David for running and donating their chipper to give us more chips for spreading on the trail. Mahalo to Keoki Magoon for allowing us access to do the chipping.
March 17, 2009 - An article in the West Hawaii Today, Stimulus list released, says "Hawaii County [..] is likely to receive $35.6 million later this year for a proposed midlevel road project in Kona and the first increment of the five-mile-long Waimea Trails and Greenway project."
February 23, 2009 - We installed the first signs along the trail!
January 11, 2009 - Aloha and Mahalo to Kris Kopra and 6 of his friends and Leningrad for clearing the fallen trees that were threatening to clog the Waikoloa Stream next to the trail by the Waimea Country Day School. In a very short time, these young men showed what a little bit of community volunteerism can do.
The Waimea Trails and Greenways project (WTG) is being implemented by the Waimea Trails and Greenways Committee of the Waimea Preservation Association, under the leadership of Clem Lam, a local architect.
The Trail will create a green corridor through the heart of Waimea along the Waikoloa Stream and will provide an accessible connecting pathway between residences, businesses & schools. The trail will generally extend along the stream from South Kohala View Estates on the west through Waimea Nature Park (Ulu La'au) to the state land north of Church Row on the east.
The committee is currently negotiating easements with the seven landowners through whose property the trail will extend. In town, a portion of the proposed route follows the north bank of the stream through property owned by the Parker School Trust Cooperation (behind the KTA Shopping Center). The project includes a 17 acre trailhead/picnic/parking area to be located on state land near the Waimea Transfer Station.
The maintainer of the contents of this website is Ben Discoe, activist for the WTG. Any errors or omissions herein are his fault. Any subjective statements above not attributed to another entity are his. You can email Ben at ben@vterrain.org. Thanks to ahualoa.net for hosting this website.
