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IN BRIEF |
BIG ISLAND & STATE
Lava insurance
moratorium lifted
The Hawaii Property
Insurance
Association
is now accepting all new
business
applications
and coverage increase
requests, according to
a statement Tuesday
by the state insurance
commissioner.
“This is an opportunity
to safeguard against
unexpected
property
damage,”Hawaii Insurance
Commissioner Gordon Ito
said. “We want to thank
our lawmakers for taking
steps to pass legislation
to lift the moratorium.”
Act 32, which was
signed into law on May
5, requires HPIA to lift
any moratorium on the
issuance of residential
property insurance within
lava zones declared to be
under a lava flow-related
state of emergency by
Hawaii County Mayor Billy
Kenoi.
The lifting of the
moratorium
is
an
opportunity to access
property insurance, which
was previously restricted
due to the Puna lava
flow. Consumers are
encouraged to contact
their insurance agent for
more information.
A lava information
brochure
and
a
homeowners’ premium
comparison chart may
be viewed at
.
hawaii.gov/ins.
Lava lake level
rises, but remains
out of view
The lava lake within
Halemaumau
Crater
continues to rise amid
a period of inflation at
the
Kilauea
Volcano
summit,
however,
it
remains well out of view
of visitors at the Jaggar
Museum, U.S. Geological
Survey Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory scientists
say.
As
of
Wednesday
morning, the lava lake
was about 190 feet below
the floor of Halemaumau,
scientists said, adding
that seismic episodic
bursts associated with
spattering within the
Overlook vent continued.
On Tuesday, the lava lake
was 203 feet below the
rim and on Monday it was
240 feet below the rim.
The rise in the lava lake
level, though it remains
well below the Overlook
vent rim, comes amid a
period of inflation that
began early Tuesday at
the summit. The summit
reservoir
enters
the
deflation portion of the
cycle when the magma
moves laterally into
a rift zone and either
erupts or is stored there.
Seismicity rates beneath
the summit were at
background levels during
the past day.
The lava lake has
fluctuated since lava
overflowed the crater
rim periodically between
April 21 and May 10 amid
a period of increased
activity at the summit
of
Kilauea
Volcano
that drew thousands
to Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park to view.
Meanwhile, the June
27 lava flow remained
active
within
about
5 miles of the Puu Oo
vent, scientists said
Wednesday. The June
27 lava flow began
June 27, 2014, and sent
flows toward Pahoa
that destroyed a home,
prompted evacuations
and inundated roads,
land and a new transfer
station.
The
flow’s
forward progress came
to a halt mauka of the
town in March.
At
Puu
Oo,
the
tiltmeter on the vent’s
north flank continued to
show no significant tilt.
Tiltmeters are used to
measure tiny changes in
the “tilt” or angle of the
ground. Seismicity rates
there were at normal
background levels.
PTA opening
Keamuku
Maneuver Area
for hunting
Army
officials
at
Pohakuloa Training Area
are the opening the
Keamuku Maneuver Area
for hunting from 5 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday. The area will be
open for bow hunting of
feral goats and pigs only.
All
hunters
must
check in and out at one
of the following hunter’s
check-in
stations:
Kilohana, located on
Saddle Road between
mile markers 43 and 44;
Puu Huluhulu, located
at the intersection of
Mauna Kea Access Road
and Saddle Road near
mile marker 28; or Puu
Anahulu, located on
Mamalahoa
Highway
across from mile marker
14. Checkout time is no
later than 7 p.m. each
day. Hunting passes will
be provided at check-in
stations beginning Friday
after 5 p.m.
Hunter
access
is
through any of the
following: gate 7 on Old
Saddle Road; gates 11,
14, 17 and the old corral
(near mile marker 9) on
Mamalahoa
Highway;
and the mile marker
49.5 gate on New Saddle
Road.
The bag limit is one pig
and one goat per hunter,
per day.
For more information,
call the PTA Hunter’s
Hotline at 969-3474;
visit
garrison.hawaii.
army.mil/pta, and click
on the “Hunting” tab;
or refer to instructions
on the hunting pass.
Additionally,
hunters
with disabilities can call
Officer Brian Mabry at
969-2429.
Contractors
face fines after
Pearl Harbor
accident kills 2
HONOLULU — The
U.S. Department of
Labor is proposing
to fine two federal
contractors $46,000 for
safety violations after a
7-ton buoy struck and
killed two workers at
Pearl Harbor last year.
The
department’s
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
said Wednesday Truston
Technologies and Healy
Tibbits Builders exposed
employees to danger
when they allowed loads
exceeding working limits
on a wire rope sling.
It says Healy Tibbitts
failed
to
protect
employees
from
impalement
hazards
and
neglected
to
follow written Navy
procedures.
The
men
were
repairing moorings on
a barge when a chain
suspending the buoy
broke in December. The
agency says the buoy
fell 75 feet.
Healy Tibbitts is based
in Aiea, Oahu. Truston
is based in Annapolis,
Md. Neither company
immediately responded
to telephone messages
seeking comment.
By West Hawaii Today staff
and wire sources
Tropical Depression 3-E forms
in Eastern Pacific, steady
strengthening forecast
Tropical Depression
3-E formed Wednesday
in the Eastern Pacific
several hundred miles
off the southern coast of
Mexico.
The depression, located
265 miles south-south-
west of PuertoEscondido,
Mexico, had maximum
sustained winds around
35 mph as of 5 p.m.
Hawaii time, forecast-
ers with the National
Hurricane Center said. It
was moving toward the
northwest at 10 mph,
and was forecast to con-
tinue steadily strengthen
during the next couple of
days as it encounters low
vertical shear and warm
waters.
Forecasters
expect
the depression to be
upgraded to a tropical
storm, which would be
named Carlos, by this
morning. It could reach
hurricane strength by
Friday.
The weather system is
expected to make a turn
toward the north and
north-northeast during
the next couple of days in
response to a mid-level
weakness over the Gulf of
Mexico. Later, a mid-lev-
el ridge northwest of
the storm is forecast to
cause the system to turn
toward the west-north-
west and move parallel to
the coast of Mexico as a
hurricane over the week-
end, forecasters said.
Elsewhere
in
the
Eastern Pacific basin,
no tropical cyclones are
expected to form during
the coming five days,
forecasters said.
Meanwhile, in the
Central North Pacific
basin, which is where
Hawaii is located, fore-
casters do not expect
any tropical cyclone for-
mation through Friday
afternoon. The basin cov-
ers an area north of the
equator spanning from
140 degrees west longi-
tude to the International
Dateline.
The Central North
Pacific and Eastern
Pacific hurricane seasons
continue through Nov.
30.
Get
more
hurri-
cane-related content,
including preparation
tips, evacuation info and
daily tropical weather
updates, on our hurri-
cane season page, spon-
sored by Clark Realty, at
westhawaiitoday.com/
hurricane-season-2015.
BY CHELSEA JENSEN
WEST HAWAII TODAY
CORRECTION
A page 1A story in
Wednesday’s edition about
bail set for a man involved
in an alleged hit-and-run
incident in Kailua Village
inadvertently misspelled
Deputy
Prosecuting
Attorney Alicia Mears last
name. It is the policy of
West Hawaii Today to cor-
rect promptly any incor-
rect or misleading infor-
mation when it is brought
to the attention of the
newspaper.
The depression, located 265 miles south-southwest of Puerto Escondido,
Mexico, had maximum sustained winds around 35 mph as of 5 p.m. Hawaii
time, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center said.
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