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Kaimukī has a lit- tle-known hidden volanic crater be- hind Pu‘u o Kaimukī (aka Kaimukī Hill) next to the Kaimukī Fire Station on Koko Head Drive that is 289 feet in elevation.
STATE REP. BERTRAND KOBAYASHI
Learn About A Volcanic Crater Located In East O‘ahu
The crater’s entry is from 12th Ave; the crater has about 60 one-and-two- story residences, interest- ingly, with old-style cess- pools and septic systems, which are not connected to the city’s sewer lines. The crater rim, which is 20-30 feet above the crater floor, would require a sewer
Being the highest point in Kaimukī, Pu‘u o Kaimukī was used by King Kamehameha as an obser- vation point in 1795 when he attacked O‘ahu, and in the second half of the 1800s for a two-arm sema- phore-signal tower to alert Honolulu merchants that a ship was approaching Ho- nolulu Harbor, and later in 1900 for Hawai‘i’s first
The most prominent fea- ture inside the crater is an abandoned water reservoir, which is home to Boy Scout Troop 10, Hawai‘i’s oldest continuously active Boy Scout troop (founded in 1917). Troop 10 remained active through World War II, unlike some Boy Scout troops.
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pumping station for these residences, which was not installed when Kaimukī converted from cesspools to sewer lines in the early 1950s.
wireless Marconi telegraph to Moloka‘i.
monly called “the bowl” — was to supply water to the residential subdivision of Kaimukī about 120 years ago but leaked soon after it was first built, and was abandoned until acquired by Scoutmaster Charles Crane, who became Hono- lulu Mayor from 1938 to 1941. Troop 10 has been one of the largest Boy Scout troops in Hawai‘i with 80- 100 Scouts in the 1950s. The troop still meets at “the bowl” every Friday night if the community wants to see the inside of “the bowl.”
of the crater is an old house built partly of lava rock on Ocean View Drive. This was the site of the Kaimukī Observatory, built in 1910 to view Halley’s comet, the most famous and most eas- ily observed comet, which visits Earth approximately every 75 years. The ob- servatory was originally operated by the then Col- lege of Hawai‘i, before it was renamed University of Hawai‘i. Later, a telescope from Punahou School was moved to this site and was operational for education purposes until the 1950s.
Please visit Pu‘u o Kaimukī for a wonderful 360-degree view of east Honolulu and of Kaimukī’s volcanic crater.
Contact state Rep. Ber- trand Kobayashi (D-19 — Wai‘alae, Kāhala, Dia- mond Head, Kaimukī and Kapahulu) at 808-586- 6310 or repkobayashi@ capitol.honolulu.gov.
The abandoned reservoir was made of concrete and rock with walls original- ly 5-6 feet thick and about 12-14 feet high. The reser- voir — still intact and com-
On the Koko Head rim
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