Wailoa River State Recreation Area
I’m fairly new to the area but the first time I walked by the Wailoa River and those wonderful foot bridges, I wondered why the park has been allowed to go unrepaired with broken and crooked old foot paths and pathway lamps that are not repaired. The park is beautiful but it is in need of some face-lifting. Anyone know about this? EDH 2025 Primary Focus Area: Preserving Our Environment
April 17, 2012 (last changed December 6, 2012)
Certainly ANTI RoundUp! We and our neighbors carefully trim the roadside and around the traffic signs and phone poles, yet it gets sprayed regularly with RU, causing huge brown ugly dead areas which breed moquitoes in the mudpuddles and create erosion. They also spray right into the stream as the truck goes by. I have seen this for myself! We are trying to free up our schedule so we can kokua with the gardening project.
Even if the ground at Wailoa is too toxic for food to eat (so maybe we can stop adding toxins?), we can still grow useful things there. It would be a great place to grow ti plants for halau hula to use. (Then maybe they will not cockaroach from my yard!)
the park could be growing food for most of us here in Hilo. Over 120 acres. Wailoa park is in desparate need of some love. i ride my bike there regularly, and the sidewalks are a joke. A wheelchair could not make it through the park. The bridges are adorable, but NOT ada accesible… and the lamps on the bridges are a reminder of bigone days in the past.
I’m sure as part of the Hilo Bayfront Trails project Wailoa Park will see some renovations. But, there is a huge need for the state to show some love.
Also – I am ANTI roundup along the edges of a lake that houses many different creatures. We know that MONSANTO does not fully understand the potential long-term repercussions of this weed killer. Stop spraying the ground with killer.
They say the ground in the park is not suitable for growing food. Well, in part that’s not true, there’s bananas and other things growing all over the park. There are studies showing that landscaped areas actually require LESS maintenance. Let’s GROW FOOD NOT LAWNS!