Interview with Samuel M. Kaahaaina, Sr.
Samuel M. Kaahaaina, Sr., born (c. 1917) and raised in Wai‘anae, talking about the water reservoir within the Naval Ammunition Depot in Lualualei and the Canadian ducks he used to watch flying down to the reservoir.
Maria Kaina, interviewer: "Where is this reservoir where the ducks used to come in?"
Samuel Kaahaaina: "It is inside the Naval Reservation close to the radio station. The water from here that goes out the overflow goes back to the Naval Reservation and comes out by the radio station. I cannot tell you about today because it has been many years [since I worked there]. I don't know whether they backfilled, or made more drainage, I don't know. They cannot backfill that because the water will overflow someplace. But that reservoir can hold the water from one week's rain, two week's rain. That is how it used to be over here. But now the world is turning around. We are getting different kinds of weather, a different climate."
Reference Cited
Alu Like, Inc. 1989. Oral Histories of the Native Hawaiian Elderly: On the Island of Oahu. Native Hawaiian Resource Center. Honolulu, HI.
