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The project therefore did not simply capture rainfall after it entered a ditch.
In 2000, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court affirmed part of the Commission on Water Resource Management’s decision, vacated part and sent issues back.
Waiāhole’s present consequence is therefore a continuing design problem: how should a fixed physical network serve changing public purposes?
Do not ask only who designed the tunnel or how far it runs. Ask which landscape processes it recruited, whose labor made it durable, what uses it displaced, which dependencies formed around it, what the gauges can and cannot tell us, and which past decision is hiding inside the present baseline.
