Volunteers spent Thursday morning at Keauhou Boat Harbor repairing damage, including potholes and buckled asphalt remaining from last year’s tsunami. About a dozen people worked with 300-degree-plus asphalt to repair the parking area of the state harbor’s main pier, which was undermined when a tsunami surged ashore March 11, 2011, said Patrick Cunningham, president of the Keauhou Bay Association. The association and Fair Wind Cruises provided $3,000 for the materials, and volunteers and employees provided the labor, said Puhi Dant, Fair Wind Cruises owner. Equipment was provided by Wilton Construction. Cunningham said area users opted to make the repairs rather than wait for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, which still has to make permanent repairs to the pier. “This is a fix until the state can obtain funding to fix all the damage left by the tsunami,” Cunningham said. “We’re in competition with a lot of other places like Mexico, California and the South Pacific, so we need to keep our facilities up to par.”
Volunteers spent Thursday morning at Keauhou Boat Harbor repairing damage, including potholes and buckled asphalt remaining from last year’s tsunami. About a dozen people worked with 300-degree-plus asphalt to repair the parking area of the state harbor’s main pier, which was undermined when a tsunami surged ashore March 11, 2011, said Patrick Cunningham, president of the Keauhou Bay Association. The association and Fair Wind Cruises provided $3,000 for the materials, and volunteers and employees provided the labor, said Puhi Dant, Fair Wind Cruises owner. Equipment was provided by Wilton Construction. Cunningham said area users opted to make the repairs rather than wait for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, which still has to make permanent repairs to the pier. “This is a fix until the state can obtain funding to fix all the damage left by the tsunami,” Cunningham said. “We’re in competition with a lot of other places like Mexico, California and the South Pacific, so we need to keep our facilities up to par.”