A homeless guy on the Ala Wai Canal told me that watching the roaches, he can see the sidewalk is above the king tide line and also above the fairways of the Ala Wai Golf Course.

The entire golf course is a watershed. Let’s simply dig out some of the below- sea-level acreage on the golf course, making lakes, deep canals and working taro lo‘i. It would be a simple, inexpensive flood-control plan if ever needed, and also beautify the tired, boring and unchallenging Ala Wai municipal links.

I’m not an engineer but I see that we don’t need no stinking wall (“Missed deadline threatens $220M in federal funding for Ala Wai project,” Star- Advertiser, Aug. 2). It used to be lo‘i and could be again. The aina has the answers.

Kimo Kekahuna

Waikiki

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