Donald Fujimoto

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  www.kauaipath.org/content/ke-ala-hele-makalae-phase-ii- - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/3/2009    Last Visited: 10/4/2009  

  Representative Mina Morita; Council members Kaipo Asing and Lani Kawahara; Director of Parks and Recreation Lenny Rapozo; Donald Fujimoto, County Engineer; Doug Haigh, Chief of the Building Division; and Marc Nishida, project manager for Jas W. Glover, Ltd all attended.

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  www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2009/03/22/news/government/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/22/2009    Last Visited: 7/15/2009  

  Donald Fujimoto, Kaua'i County engineer, and Edward Tschupp, Kaua'i County chief of the Wastewater Management Division, testified before state lawmakers Wednesday in support of the bill.
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  "We're very hopeful that the Legislature can appreciate the severity of the problems that we face every time an accident occurs on Kuhio Highway; and the fact that it creates a temporary paralysis for our island by separating Kapa'a from Lihu'e," Fujimoto said.
  
  The intent of issuing funds for the Wailua emergency bypass road is "to improve the road efficiently, so that we don't have to constantly maintain it," he said, "and to also provide a much safer temporary access."
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  "It looks very promising that we might get some stimulus funds for the Waimea facility," which would provide the other 50 percent of what is needed, said Fujimoto. "Especially in today's economy, it's real important that every dollar that we can receive through a grant program would allow us to continue other services ... It's critical that we try to leverage as much as we can."
  
  If HB214 is passed then the county would have to provide the additional funds for both projects.
  
  "We are committed," said Fujimoto, "and we're really hoping that the state will also see their part in this and support our efforts."

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  Published on: 9/20/2007    Last Visited: 9/20/2007  

  "Just the Koloa development itself will take us well beyond our average construction and probably sustain construction on Kauai for the next two or three years," says Donald Fujimoto, Kauai county engineer, who heads the Department of Public Works (DPW).
  
  Donald Fujimoto, county engineer, Kauai County
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  Fujimoto says this scenario works out well for both the county and the developer because the county has limited resources because of the labor shortage."If we were to build it, it would take a good eight to 10 years," he says."They're way ahead.
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  "I think conceptually, overall, it's a well-developed plan," Fujimoto says."The thing that legitimizes the plan is there was a lot of local input as well as considering the credential of the authors."He is concerned, however, with some of the plan implementations and funding sources.He would also like input from traffic engineers. (Charlier Associates is a traffic planning firm.) "I guess sometimes engineers, we rely too much on numbers," Fujimoto says.
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  "We're moving and focusing on a lateral expansion that should give us another eight to 12 years," Donald Fujimoto says."At the same time, we see the need for a long-range landfill siting, and we're hoping to have a study in place and completed by the end of next year to site a new landfill. ...I think the need for a landfill is there and we all recognize that and it's better if you can do that sooner than later."He added that the county does not plan on shipping its trash off-island.
  
  Fujimoto believes the landfill issue will not affect the construction industry."I'm lucky on this island, we've a got a very progressive group," he says.
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  Fujimoto says a recent project is the Kapaia Bridge, which is no longer usable.The Wailapa Cleanup, which resulted from the destruction of the Ka Loko Dam breach on March 14, 2006, was completed by March 2007.

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  www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/3/2007    Last Visited: 8/4/2007  

  Kaua'i County Engineer Donald Fujimoto said he doubts restoration is possible.
  
  "I think we're past the point of preserving it.We're putting it on our capital improvements projects budget for replacement, but based on the past public input, a lot of people said they wanted the same rural character of the bridge," he said.
  
  If the community insists, the county could build a new one-lane bridge to match the old, Fujimoto said.

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  Published on: 11/24/2006    Last Visited: 5/27/2007  

  Kauai County Engineer Donald Fujimoto said the county is looking into whether Pflueger's illegal grading near the Ka Loko Reservoir in 2002 might have had anything to do with the March 14 dam break that released nearly a half-billion gallons of water and killed seven people.

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  Arson suspected in house fire - The Honolulu Advertiser - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 9/30/2005  

  County Engineer Donald Fujimoto said that most of the clearing was done by volunteers.

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  Building Industry - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/9/2002    Last Visited: 7/22/2003  

  The Lawa'i-based Aqua Engineers (AE) has made three additions to its team, including Donald Fujimoto, Lyle Tabata, and Doug Walker.
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  Fujimoto is the general manager for Briant Construction, Inc., one of three companies held under AE.

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  Kauai News & Information: 08/01/2006 - 08/31/2006 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2006    Last Visited: 1/7/2007  

  Kauai County Engineer Donald Fujimoto was on Oahu and could not be reached for comment.

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  O'ahu, Kaua'i levees deemed at-risk - The Honolulu... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/2/2007    Last Visited: 2/3/2007  

  Both were cited in 2004 inspections for a variety of maintenance problems, including silt-filled riverbeds, vegetation growing on levee walls, concrete cracks and some drain valves that were inoperable, said Kaua'i county engineer Donald Fujimoto.
  
  Fujimoto said that he first learned about the levee issues on Kaua'i when Corps of Engineers personnel came to his office in December 2005.He said the county searched for the maintenance manuals that would have been developed when the federally-built levees were turned over to the county, but they could not be found.
  
  "We basically had to develop our own maintenance plan," he said.
  
  Because county procurement processes can take a long time, the county decided to do the repairs and maintenance in-house, working overtime on weekends.Fujimoto said the county is hoping to have the levee work completed by March.

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  Removal of Kaua'i pavilions urged - The Honolulu... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/4/2006    Last Visited: 10/5/2006  

  Administration officials said they raised the question about permits internally and that county engineer Donald Fujimoto and planning director Ian Costa are discussing the issue.

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