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Kahaluʻu: the brief, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026

The Byodo-In temple in the Valley of the Temples, Kahaluʻu, Oʻahu, below the Koʻolau range.
File photo: The Byodo-In temple in the Valley of the Temples, Kahaluʻu, Oʻahu, below the Koʻolau range. Image: PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The state water commission is set on Sept. 22 to review emergency excavator work to remove immediate threats along Waiāhole Stream and, for a farm, along Waianu Stream in Waiāhole. [source: the Commission on Water Resource Management's agenda, Sept. 22, 2026]

DPP heard a Special Management Area permit in August for a new home and garage on a shoreline lot on Lulani Street. [source: DPP's public-input map, file 2026-SMA-36]

Basis. Written by the Ledger in a session on Sept. 20, 2026 from the records linked in each sentence; it says what was on the record that day, in plain words, and does not predict outcomes or take sides. What has happened since is on Kahaluʻu's page. Corrections: the corrections log.

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