CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Visitors enjoy the sun and sand at Waikiki Beach on Oct. 1.
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Regarding the Nov. 10 article, “Disappearing Beaches”: Perhaps the good people at the departments of Land and Natural Resources and of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, etc., should read and refer to Robert L. Wiegel’s 2008 article “Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawai‘i: History of its transformation from a natural to an urban shore” in Shore & Beach.
Historically there were no beaches, only sea walls and narrow strips of sand in various places, with the mouth of Apuakehau Stream providing the only true beach when the stream dried up.
No amount of environmental impact statement reports can establish beaches where there were none, so either bite the bullet and pump millions (perhaps even billions) of dollars to provide our visitors with the postcard images of Waikiki beaches, or let’s bring back the streams and revert to the wetlands of the early Hawaiians.
Veneeta Acson
Manoa
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