Ala Wai debris 'is the worst I've ever seen it' after recent rain

[@uglymusubi507]

Oh no, the pristine tropical paradise doesn't meet the standards of tourists? I think a dirty canal is the least of Hawaii's problems.

[@Insomniac-c7e]

Crime is numero uno.

[@curiousnomadic]

@@Insomniac-c7e Nope. Cost of rent and property is numero uno, that is leading to both the crime and the trash.

[@curiousnomadic]

Don't think these are tourists

[@UniqueStranger]

Most likely caused by the many houseless living in the ditches these days. It wasn't like this back during past decades.

[@curiousnomadic]

So a houseless threw a pickinick table in the water? Doubtful

[@Josephine-sm2db]

It was always full of trash, you just didn't see it

[@curiousnomadic]

@@Josephine-sm2db Yeah and it got washed out by the heavy rain. You would always see it by the boat harbor or Ala Moana Blvd bridge. I swear that is the nastiest dirtiest boat harbor in the US.

[@ashho313]

​@@curiousnomadic somebody house came down i seen somebody save a puppy in the water

[@rontakayama6379]

Would be nice to see some actual locals being interviewed. Just saying!

[@davec3651]

Locals tend to be more camera shy

[@Josephine-sm2db]

​@@davec3651media wanted a clueless transplant instead

[@LonnieBrewer-dd4wi]

They have been interviewed.

[@BobbyHo2022]

If we can keep homeless from living underneath the bridges we won't get all this trash in the ala wai.

[@Waynes-xt9gr]

ACLU will forbid it.......that org is their "union"....

[@okolemahu]

Homeless debris.

[@nickwinn]

It's nice to see those two girls doing their part in cleaning up.

[@kobragangbit]

its the sitting and countings job

[@Josephine-sm2db]

Agree, get plenty time to criticize and look pretty but not interested in cleaning up

[@Hawaiiguy2845]

I live on one of the main steams in kaimuki and it’s the crazy homeless people living under the bridges that are creating a large amount of the non natural pollution

[@howzit9397]

Yep all the homeless living under the bridges litter and personal belongings flow into the streams during big rain

[@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426]

We have money for 2 wars and don't have money to take care of our own😢

[@Nicko-c1m]

I saw a girl dressed proper not looking homeless at all climbed down a rope to under a canal bridge in kaimuki.

[@LonnieBrewer-dd4wi]

​@@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426What 2 wars..

[@kevinhuddleston6438]

It's shocking that rain has run off... the canal is doing its job and protecting Waikiki beach.

[@Islandgirl-p7h]

Alawai canal was always dirty since I remember in the early 1980s. But I have never saw that much debris this is the worst I seen it looks like a lot of ply board wood 😮.

[@GSVM007]

If your infrastructure sucks, everything sucks. Make Hawaii great again.

[@Josephine-sm2db]

Ala wai has become the drainage catchment for all the mauka developement thats why

[@chrisretired5379]

I wouldn’t be so eager to hold the ‘found items’ out of the canal these days.

[@christinaenrique3561]

FILTHY MESS!

[@ramona9843]

Soo Sad,poor Oahu, too much people a Way too much rubbish . People take care

[@LoLo-m7v4x]

Hey those 2 Hawaii experts should move to Lanikai to enjoy the blues

[@dianealm743]

This is just the beginning 😱

[@kemangraya2382]

Can’t believe that ala wai looks like this. I used to live on ala wai in the 90’s it was crystal clear

[@lavawurx808]

Poor ting🥱

[@jacobperez1981]

What they expect living next to a River runoff while heavy rains…? I’m no expert, but that’s nature right…?

[@davec3651]

What? How come it never rain AT ALL over here today near Ala Moana /Mcully? So weird to just hear about all this rain.

[@jorgej5916]

Increased Population, Increase ie. Homelessness population = increase un-checked garbage , politically correct or not, that's the fact jack

[@ashho313]

Man. There was a puppy in the water. Thats. How bad it is.

[@gs-nt6nf]

Where are the nets that DLNR installed?

[@userm1-m2v]

Where all these rubbish from?!! There was NO RAIN IN ALA WAI!

[@mmadchef808]

It came from all of the culverts that run down the mountain, run under bridges, etc. Doesn’t have to rain in Ala Wai.

[@andrewdumpling1864]

whatever happened to those dirtballs that was magically gonna clean da alawai?

[@oger_ROG]

I always thought that ala wai was a man made travesty, not even the genki balls can clear up, that canal does not have the natural circulation which pushes filth out in the ocean

[@Waynes-xt9gr]

BU.....the genki ball will NOT dissolve a chair or mattress....

[@foomp]

Those were related to microorganisms (e.g. bacteria). They're not gonna break down mattresses and debris landslides. What you think they were for?

[@AL808HAWAII]

Its such a shame my Ali'i would never let this happen shame on you State of Hawaii.

[@bluemoon3264]

Looks like mostly organic stuff that washed down out of the mountain streams into Ala Wai canal .

[@mattluna09]

The city doesn’t wana clean it up again , and the state is not going to do nothing it is

[@lisarogers1392]

Kauai too Trash all along our roadways People seem uneducated about littering

[@Insomniac-c7e]

It will all wash out to sea.

[@marlenemcgovern1045]

Not to mention surfing in pollution. People get very sick. I did. Staphylococcus. Twice.😢

[@jaws7794]

where you think the debris is from..from Kaimuki area, You can clean ala wai with your eco balls..but you not stopping the trash from before the ala wai....

Sole crabs going come big now. Hahaha

[@JamesCordillio]

I used to play and fish there in the 40s and50s, it was clean back then cause of the outlet on Campbell and kalakauà. The wall was not in existence then,just pure beauty.

[@ClarenceFreitas]

🙏🏻

[@hawaii-state-of-mind]

Homeless hoarders living under bridges. All the rubbish cleanse the river.

[@jcp4851]

How long have those two been here? It stormed ma uka and this is what happens ma kai.

[@Markcurb]

Genki balls!

[@techshabby0001]

But ... the balls

[@Aloha4Maui]

Hand out some nets, people can go fishing for rubbish😉

[@andrewjohnson5188]

Democrat run state means all talk and no action

[@hansolo8225]

Bryce Moore is a nepobaby.

[@CupRamen-j8o]

Make Kelly Simek wear a 2 piece bikini.

[@howzit9397]

👀👀👀

[@JamesCordillio]

Yeah, might even find a body hope not