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Radar helps resolve seabird-power line dilemma. (study of seabird fallout in Kauai)
When the Kauai Electric Division of Citizens Utilities first proposed (in 1989) building a 69-kV power line to improve the reliability of electricity service to Kauai's north shore, area residents and environmental groups mounted concerted opposition because of the possibility that the line might threaten two species of endangered seabirds. Specifically, there was concern that Newell's shearwaters and dark-rumped petrels would collide with the new line or other utility structures as they flew toward the sea from their nests on land. Kauai has one of the largest populations of these birds remaining in the world.
Eventually agreement was reached to launch a three-year …
