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Volunteers employ ancient method to restore He‘eia fishpond

By Cindy Ellen Russell

Dec. 13, 2015

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Volunteers worked at the end of the line for the bucket pass near the fishpond gate.

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Organizers of the event said it had been 200 years since this method of building, in such a large scale, has been put to use again.

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Volunteers sent buckets to the end of the line passed the hale kia’i (caretaker house).

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Mark Rau passed a bucket along with other volunteers on the fishpond wall.

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Jeff Standley and Michael Quinn, 10, passed a bucket along the fishpond wall.

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Volunteers lined on one of the walls of the Heԥia Fishpond wall on Saturday.

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Volunteers passed a bucket down the line on Saturday morning.

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Sienna Andrade, 14, and Kimberly Bayudan, 20, passed a bucket of coral.

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Volunteers formed a human chain to pass buckets of coral and sand to fix an 80 ft. hole in the Heԥia Fishpond wall.

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Volunteer Lori Walker collected coral to fill up buckets.