You never hear our our reps talk about actual Climate Change impacts for Honolulu and Waikiki. They never say a word about it.
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The Sand Island WWTP plant sits on a sand bar mud flat only 8 feet above sea level. If any type of storm surge or tsunami were to roll in it would shut down ALL on downtown Honolulu and Waikiki Hotels. You never hear Civil Beat or the other media ever saying a word about it. It would be "catastrophic" from the Climate Change perspective - but ZERO said by anyone about the extreme massive vulnerabilities for Honolulu and Waikiki.
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Sea Level Rise can be found all over Oahu, Kauai and Maui. Sea level used to be 40 feet higher. You can find the ancient reefs in the hillsides everywhere except the Big Island which is very young geologically.
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All of Honolulu is on an ancient coral reef. The Ewa Plain is a massive ancient coral reef.