Kauaʻi

One of the most remarkable structures attributed to the menehune is the Menehune Ditch (sometimes called Ola’s Water Lead) on the island of Kauaʻi, a ditch that brings water from Waimea River to the taro patches on the other side of the mountain, some six miles away.

Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.

There is a large difference in timescale between the modern precipitation rates in Figure 10.5 and the paleoprecipitation rates that helped shape Kauaʻi’s topography over the past 5 Myr, as there is in any study that links long-term landscape evolution to modern climate measurements.