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Paying Top Dollar to Watch It Flow Into the Sea

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  Reason.  Free Minds  •  Free Markets Investigative  ·  Water Policy  ·  Fiscal Accountability Infrastructure Government Failure Special Report  ·  March 2026 How decades of deferred maintenance, regulatory timidity, and bureaucratic buck-passing turned Southern California's water infrastructure into a machine for destroying value — and why a near-disaster on Oahu's North Shore is the most honest picture yet of where this road leads. Compiled from CalMatters, San Diego Union-Tribune, CBS 8, Voice of San Diego, KPBS, Honolulu Civil Beat, NPR, CNN, ASCE Infrastructure Report Card, DLNR Records, SDCWA Rate Filings, and SEC Documents March 21, 2026 Bottom Line Up Front On March 20, 2026, a 120-year-old earthen dam on Oahu came within three feet of catastrophic failure during Hawaii's worst flooding in two decades. The dam's owner, a subsidiary of NYSE-listed Dole plc — an $8.48 billion-revenue Irish-American multinationa...
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A Century of Deferred Danger: Dole Picks Dividends Over Danger

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Dole, Hawaii's Most Precarious Dam, and a Crisis Years in the Making For nearly five decades, the multinational fruit conglomerate Dole — and its publicly traded Irish parent, Dole plc — received state notices of deficiency, accumulated fines, and watched rivals pay dividends upward while North Shore Oahu residents lived downstream of a 120-year-old earthen dam that engineers said could not handle a major storm. This week, that storm arrived. Compiled from Associated Press, NPR, Civil Beat, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii News Now, KITV, The Watchers, DLNR Records, SEC Filings, and Hawaii Legislative Archives Oahu, Hawaii — March 21, 2026 ■  Bottom Line Up Front The Wahiawa Dam on Oahu's North Shore — a 120-year-old, 660-foot earthen structure owned by Dole Food Company Hawaii, a subsidiary of NYSE-listed Dole plc — came within feet of catastrophic failure on March 20, 2026, during the worst flooding event on Oahu in 20 years. The...
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