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Kalihi
Community Resources Improvement Stream Project
 The Kalihi Stream Project began in 1998, and funded through the State Department of Health, is a community-based initiative to facilitate the restoration of Kalihi Stream to its former place as a community asset. Project
goals are to increase community awareness
of Kalihi
Stream as a natural resource. Through community
involvement and education, improve the health of the riparian area by
restoring a section of stream through alien vegetation removal and
planting
Native Hawaiian plants, mitigating the impact of polluted runoff,
reduce
litter, sediment and nutrient loading, and
pesticide runoff. Phase
I – introduced the Project to
the community, conducted
stream clean-ups, held educational fairs, conducted a
student T-shirt design contest, created two multi-lingual two stream
care
brochures – Stream Friendly Gardening
and Plenty of Ways to Help
Your Stream –
to educate Kalihi residents on ways to reduce non-point source
pollution.
Cultural Exchange 2004- 2006
Phase II – developed a Kalihi specific video to provide information to the community about the history of Kalihi stream and watershed, continued monthly stream clean up and began clearing and restoration of a section of riparian habitat along Kalihi Stream adjacent to Kuhio Park Terrace Housing. Phase III – continued riparian restoration efforts to develop the area into an educational demonstration site by removing alien vegetation and planting Native Hawaiian plants; developed K-12 stream educational materials for area schools and created a Kalihi specific coloring book in English and Hawaiian.
Phase
IV – continue restoration and
stream clean-up efforts;
introduce stream educational material to area schools including
field trips to the stream demonstration site; establish stewardship
programs
and conduct a cultural exchange between Hoa Aina o Makaha in Waianae, a
rural
educational organization, and students from Kalihi.
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