Windward Mall in Kaneohe to get 'rain garden'

14/08/2015
Windward Mall in Kaneohe is about to become one of the first malls in Hawaii to get a “rain garden,” which is designed to reduce the amount of pollution entering streams and the ocean by intercepting storm water, the project’s manager confirmed to PBN Thursday.

Koko Marina Center in East Oahu already has a rain garden.
Todd Cullison, executive director of Hui O Koolaupoko, a Kailua-based nonprofit watershed management group aimed at improving water quality, told PBN that the Windward Mall project has a total budget of $225,000.
Cullison, the project manager, noted that it is being funded by a grant from the state Department of Health, with the funding originated from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The project, which will be located in three different parts of the Kamehameha Schools-owned mall on the outskirts of its parking lot, should start construction in September and be completed in two to three weeks.
A rain garden, which works in both residential and commercial settings, is a deliberately built depression planted with vegetation that allows storm water from impervious surfaces to collect, briefly settle and then infiltrate into the ground, Hui O Koolaupoko said on its website.
Cullison said he is hoping the Windward Mall rain garden will serve as a demonstration project that will encourage other landowners, both in the public and private sectors, to consider this type of project.
“In the 2011-12 timeframe, we came up with a plan to look at every commercial property in Windward Oahu and did a bunch of studies,” he said. “We looked at doing a couple projects, one at Windward Community College and then at Windward Mall.”
Up next for Cullison is a project in Kailua at the American Savings Bank parking lot near the new Target store, which his firm has been hired as a consultant for.
Hui O Koolaupoko focuses on ocean health and land-based pollution, storm water runoff and does tree plantings along streams.
In commercial zones, such as Windward Mall, it is focusing on storm water.

Fonte:http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/blog/morning_call/2015/08/windward-mall-in-kaneohe-to-get-rain-garden.html

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