Fieldwork Pau for Honolulu Rail Archeological Surveys

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Excerpts from a Pacific Business News brief: 

TheHonolulu Authority for Rapid Transportationhas completed all of the fieldwork for the archaeological survey required before work can resume on the $5.16 billion elevated-rail mass-transit project, HART said Monday in its email newsletter.

That work involved digging more than 400 trenches along the project’s 20-mile route from Kapolei to Ala Moana Center, including 260 in the City Center phase between Middle Street and Ala Moana Center. 

HART is now working on a report on its findings for the State Historic Preservation Division, which is part of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. 

Photo by Sophie Cocke for Civil Beat: Honolulu rail construction workers gather around a trench where human burials were unearthed on 10/13/12

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