Report Title:

Supports Increasing Depth of Barbers Point Harbor.

THE SENATE

S.C.R. NO.

94

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

supporting increasing the depth of barbers point harbor.

 

WHEREAS, Barbers Point harbor is an important point of entry for goods shipped into the State from overseas; and

WHEREAS, currently, partially loaded coal cargo ships from Indonesia, with a thirty-six foot draft, are the largest vessels to offload cargo at Barber's Point harbor; and

WHEREAS, when fully loaded, the coal cargo ships currently in operation have a draft of up to forty-five feet; and

WHEREAS, Honolulu harbor can only accommodate vessels with no more than a forty foot draft; and

WHEREAS, Barbers Point harbor can only be dredged to a maximum depth of forty-five feet as dredging to deeper than forty-five feet would leave the pier pilings unsupported and would render the dock commercially inoperational; and

WHEREAS, there have been concerns raised by fishers that while dredging equipment is in use, particularly mud plumes, the local fish population is driven away, harming both the commercial fishing industry and subsistence fishers; and

WHEREAS, fishers at Barbers Point harbor have expressed their support for dredging the harbor to its deepest viable depth at a single time rather than in multiple phases; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-First Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Legislature expresses its support for increasing the depth of Barbers Point harbor to forty-five feet in a single dredging operation rather than in phases; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor of the State of Hawaii and to the Director of Transportation.

 

 

 

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