Sheraton Project Information

Starwood Sheraton Development

The built environment of the project area consists Kapili Road: a county-standard 60-foot right-of-way on the western border. Po’ipu Road, on the northern border, is a county=standard 90-foot right-of-way with a center turn lane. The inventory survey area has been impacted by a significant amount of modification and alteration of the landscape during historic times by the sugar cane industry. The elevated railroad berm (SIHP 50-30-10-0947) is so tall and massive, that the Sheraton Kaua’i resort uses the feature as a fence for its northern property boundary. The elevated railroad berm feature also divides approximately one acre of the project area from the remainder of the project area. This one-acre section consists of a cleared house lot with an existing single-wall-construction dwelling.
Within the project area, the northern and western boundary edges are landscaped with grass, hedge plantings consisting of Pua-Be-Still (Thevetia peruviana), and improved with an irrigation system. Between September and November 2004, Cultural Surveys Hawai’i, Inc., (Yorck 2005) monitored excavation activities during the installation of underground electric utility improvements. The excavation took place within the landscaped area of the present project area along Kapili Road. No cultural materials were encountered during the excavation activities along Kapili Road. A ten-meter- long portion of buried “A Horizon” soil was encountered, which was profiled and described on November 2, 2004.
A bulldozer path and associated “push-piles” of boulders are located north of the elevated railroad berm feature within the western portion of the northern nine acres of the subject parcel. Some “pushpiles” consist of boulders, construction debris, and left-over fill material which appear to have been brought in from outside the project area and “staged” for later use. The northernmost edge of the project area consists of a manmade outcrop of road bedding boulders and road-cut boulders used in the construction of Po’ipu Road.