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Police are asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect or suspects involved in a shooting Thursday night in Hanapepe.
At about 8:30 p.m. officers were dispatched to an area near Salt Pond Beach to investigate a shooting that wounded a 38-year-old man. The victim received medical treatment and is in stable condition, police said by email Friday.
The suspect was seen in what may have been a white Ford F150 truck, and wearing a dark pullover sweatshirt.
Police continue to investigate this incident. Anyone with information on the suspect’s identity or this incident is urged to call Assistant Chief Bryson Ponce at 241-1681 or Police Dispatch at 241-1711.
Water usage reduction downgraded in North Kona
KAILUA-KONA >> Big Island officials turned the water back on in North Kona following a mandatory conservation order that lasted nearly a year.
The county’s Department of Water Supply on Tuesday downgraded the mandatory 25 percent water usage reduction to 10 percent voluntary water conservation, West Hawaii Today reported. The mandatory order was in effect for 362 days.
The change came three weeks after contractors finished repairing the Keopu deep well, reducing the number of offline water sources in the region to three.
Deep wells at Keahuolu and Hualalai, both of which were repaired in 2017 only to fail again shortly afterward, remain inoperative. The deep well at Waiaha is last on the department’s priority list, as its repair will require fishing out equipment lost after an excavation cable snapped over the summer.
No timelines exist for the return of any of the three wells.
Construction projects such as the Manawalea Street extension, part of the state’s large-scale housing and commercial development, which requires abundant water, were put on hold for months as officials struggled with five simultaneously inoperative deep wells.
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