"I’m just looking at the effects all the run off has had on the property and I’m just concerned for safety just feels like any day now something could happen," says Gale Nakaoka, homeowner’s daughter.
It’s a problem residents in Palolo have seen worsen since heavy rains hit in 2006.
"Until they solve the source of the problems it’s not worth fixing right?," says Nakaoka.
Nakaoka first recognized the problem last October, and that’s when she went to the city to get address it.
According to her the current drainage system cannot handle all the water when it rains heavily.
"From what we understand there’s sub surface water movement under the roadway and that’s causing the shifting of the land," says Nakaoka.
She says nobody lives next door to her mother because it’s too dangerous.
The city told Nakaoka it would cost $25 million dollars to fix the problem.
"There’s $7 million in the budget but I guess they don’t want to start doing the repairs until they actually know what they’re going to do, it’s just a very dangerous situation very uncomfortable for people to have to keep living there " says Ann Kobayashi, Honolulu City councilmember.
Kobayashi says the city needs to be careful when issuing permits for development near hillsides, because of similar problems in Manoa and Aina Haina.
"Hopefully there’ll be this technology that stabilize the movement but it’s hard to say because the earth movement is so deep," says Kobayashi.
"If the city could find us a way to fix the source of the problem that’s all we can hope for if my Mom has to move then we’ll have to deal with that," says Nakaoka.
Kobayashi says one-hundred and fourteen homes in Aina Haina were condemned due to a similar problem.
She hopes the homes on Kuahea Street will not have to do the same.
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