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Hawaii, over the course of the coming years, is going to be facing a difficult challenge as it related to surveying. In the areas that were devastated by the recent wildfires, many communities will have to be reconstructed, not just homes, but entire infrastructures as well.

Two very big complications come to my mind., the first being that time honored control will be destroyed during the infrastructure demolition, with more being wiped out by grading activities and the second being that there are likely not nearly enough surveyors to keep up with the emergent workflow. There is also the possibility that some firms have been put out of business in these areas because of the loss of their offices and equipment to the flames.

I've read elsewhere that several survey organizations have been discussing the preservation of control as a top priority before the massive reconstruction begins but have seen nothing relating to how that would happen or who would be responsible for it.

Any mainlander surveying in Hawaii is likely to face a challenge as Hawaii only became a State in 1959 and land title there likely does not conform to either the Colonial or PLSS methods.

However things shake out, I envision a dire need for help from the main land survey communities to accomplish the reconstruction needs as quickly as possible.