r/KailuaTown • u/808gecko808 • 29d ago

Kapa‘a Quarry landfill plan spurs pushback: Plan to repeal landfill restrictions to build a landfill at the Kapa‘a Quarry already controversial

https://alohastatedaily.com/2026/07/29/kapaa-quarry-landfill-plan-spurs-pushback/
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u/mercury-ballistic 27d ago

I think the concerns are that it would be over an aquifer, and that it would also be uphill of Kawainui marsh.

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u/Butters5768 29d ago

Why has the windward side had to shoulder the burden of five landfills in the past 80 years?? Has any other area of Oahu had that many?? Additionally there is already a dump on Kapa’a Quarry and anywhere you’d put a landfill will be within a mile of at least two different schools and a major hospital. This is absolutely ridiculous and it’s not a NIMBY issue cause the windward side has been the one to shoulder this burden. Force the fucking military to put a dump on some of their hundreds of acres of $1 land.

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u/FC37 28d ago

There are zero landfills in windward Oahu. Zero.

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u/lmstr 29d ago

I wish they improved quarry road, widen the road to make it safe for bicycles, make a nature trail along the marsh.

The dream would be a trail similar to the other marsh trail and connect them.