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cracks and depressions that have been transported there by wind and storm runoff. In <br /> areas of higher rainfall, this lava contributes to the groundwater supply through <br /> percolation. Punaluu extremely rocky peat is a soil in which rocky outcrops occupy 40 to <br /> 50 percent of the surface. It is described as swell-drained, thin organic soil over <br /> Pahoehoe lava bedrock. The Pahoehoe bedrock is very slowly permeable, though water <br /> moves rapidly through the cracks. Surface runoff is slow, erosion hazard is slight. A'a <br /> .lava has practically no soil covering and is typically bare of vegetation. The lava is very <br /> rough and broken, and is typically a mass of clinkery, hard, glassy, sharp pieces in <br /> tumbled heaps. It is very permeable and is used for watershed. <br /> 32. ALISII: The project area is not classified as having any agricultural importance on the <br /> State Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of <br /> Hawaii (ALISH) Map. <br /> 33. Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification System: Soils within the subject <br /> property are classified as "E" (Very Poor) for agricultural productivity by the Land Study <br /> Bureau. <br /> 34. Fauna: In 1989, Philip Bruner completed a Survey of Avifauna and Feral Mammals on <br /> QLT's Keahuolu lands, as part of an Environmental Impact Statement to accompany a <br /> petition to reclassify approximately 1,135 acres of QLT lands from State Agricultural and <br /> Conservation Land Use Districts to the Urban District (extending from Palani Road to the <br /> Kealakehe/Keahuoluboundsry). As the project site is adjacent to areas covered in the <br /> 1989 survey and characterized by similar habitat conditions, it is likely that the <br /> conclusions of the earlier study are still applicable to the subject project area. During the <br /> survey, no resident endemic species of land or water birds, migratory or indigenous birds <br /> or seabirds, or endangered species of feral mammals were observed. Feral mammals <br /> observed on the project site include mongoose, rats and mice. The majority of bird and <br /> mammal life impacted was found to be exotic species. <br /> <br /> 35. Flora: In a botanical survey of the project area performed by Char and Associates in <br /> February, 1999, three general vegetation types were recognized in the area. Kiawe forest <br /> occurs on the northern portion of the project area around Luhia Street, fountain grass <br /> -9- <br /> <br />