Cut cable stops Hawaiian Telcom service
Service to about 600 Hawaiian Telcom customers in the Puuloa Road area may be disrupted after a fiber cable was accidentally severed during construction work.
A contractor digging holes for new street lights accidentally sliced Hawaiian Telcom’s fiber cable in the Kalihi-Palama area, the company said.
The fiber cut occurred Monday at about 12:30 p.m. near the Tesoro Gas Express station and Oahu Community Correctional Center on Kamehameha Highway. The cut is causing disruption to telephone, Internet and TV service.
In addition, Hawaiian Telcom High Speed Internet and TV customers in the Moanalua area might experience slower speeds or degraded television performance.
Police identify Utah man killed in Big Isle crash
Hawaii County police identified the man who died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a one-vehicle crash as Christopher Sprecher of Salt Lake City.
Sprecher, 60, was injured in a single-vehicle cash on Kohala Ranch Road at Olomana Road in the Kohala Ranch gated subdivision in North Kohala.
Police said Sprecher was driving a 1998 Toyota Land Rover sport utility vehicle when he lost control of the SUV and struck a tree.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Plan to require septic systems draws criticism
KAILUA-KONA » Real estate agents and builders are objecting to a proposal by the state Department of Health to replace cesspools with septic tank systems in rural homes where a municipal sewage system is not available.
The change could add $10,000 to the price of a new home and add to the expense of buying an existing home, West Hawaii Today reported Sunday.
"It’s got huge implications for those trying to build lower-income housing," said Bob Williams, a Hilo real estate broker.
The proposed rules will require septic systems in smaller, currently exempt subdivisions and will require existing cesspools to be replaced after a property is sold or transferred.
Cesspools are underground containers that discharge untreated domestic waste into the ground. A Health Department report says that can contaminate groundwater. Septic tank systems allow solids to settle in a tank, where organisms digest solids and allow liquids to flow into a shallow absorption bed.
