The pipeline we followed up from Kanewai Dam #2 comes from this tunnel.  It is the old plantation tunnel #19.  Some years ago a bunch of students from Wai`anae High School were walking past the tunnel and saw a bunch of workers trying to shore up the tunnel entrance.  The workers were Samoans and since then they called tunnel #19, the Samoan Tunnel.  The tunnel is sealed a few feet inside to keep the water pure.  I'm probably drinking some of the water from this tunnel when at home.

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