Kokee Ditch

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The Kokee Ditch is an irrigation canal on the island of Kauai.

In 1923, construction began on the Kokee Ditch system to open the mauka hills to sugar cane production.

By 1926, the Kokee Ditch was completed, diverting water from Mohihi Stream and the headwaters of the Waimea River in the Alaka'i Swamp at an altitude of about 3400 feet. About one-fourth of the Kokee Ditch supply irrigated the highland sugar cane fields below Pu'u Opae reservoir on Niu Ridge, and the balance irrigated the highland fields east of Kokee Road.

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