H-3 and Its Initial Impacts

This is the original letter sent form Bishop Museum to Tetsuo Herano

"The attached maps, for the two proposed alternative alignments for the Kaneohe Interchange, H-3 highway, include seventeen (17) archeological sites recorded within the project area" Letter from the Bishop Museum to Chief of H-3 construction, T. Harano (Draft Third Supplement to the Interstate H-3 Environmental Impact Statement, Page 51 Para 1). H-3 was a public project which spurred debate between the contractors of H-3 and local residents in the Kaneohe and North Halawa Valley region. They argued over the approval of an Interstate freeway linking existing H-1 freeway traffic to Windward O'ahu Kaneohe Marine Corp Base in what became known as a Trans-Ko'olau interchange Highway designation 3, or H-3. From the late 1960s the actual construction of H-3 was always shrouded in debate that continues to this day, H-3 sits on ancient Hawaiian archeological sites, will disrupted native bird habitats and was planned to be built next to an existing planned electromagnetic station designated OMEGA. With all these going against the H-3 project, many people did feel H-3 was necessary to relieve traffic congestion on existing Trans-Ko’olau routes named Likelike and Pali highways. With this disagreement between approvals for construction constant debate over the project itself was spread out over nearly nineteen years. Main topics included the archeological sites, native fauna disruptions, and the problems with the electromagnetic radiation emitted from the OMEGA station 

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