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Honorable James Y. Arakaki, Chairman <br />and Members of the County Council <br />Page 8 <br />owners the opportunity to gain access to irrigation and potable water throughout the year. <br />The applicant has expended more than $400,000.00 to drill a 1,200 -foot deep well on the <br />site. A pump has been installed to deliver approximately 200 gallons per minute. The <br />appropriate booster pump, storage tank and water lines will be developed to service each <br />of the proposed lots. At the property line, each lot owner will have to provide its own <br />hook-up with a water meter and piping to service its property. Once the system is in <br />place, the applicant will form a cooperative water company to operate and maintain the <br />water system. The cooperative will be proportionately owned by all lot owners and <br />would establish a connection fee along with a reasonable rate for water consumption. <br />There is a County water tank and well located on the mauka portion of the site. As such, <br />the site already has access to overflows from this system, which is then captured in two <br />45,000 gallon storage tanks. When the tanks are full, the excess is captured in an open <br />reservoir. The applicant intends to use water from the 90,000 -gallon tanks for potable <br />purposes, while the 1,200 -foot well will be used primarily for irrigation. Water from the <br />irrigation well will also be used to supplement the potable needs of the lot owners. Water <br />from the open reservoir will be used only for irrigation. When completed, the cost of the <br />private irrigation and quasi -potable water system will exceed $700,000.00. <br />According to the Department of Water Supply, the County's existing water system <br />facilities cannot support the proposed subdivision at this time. Extensive improvements <br />and additions, including source, storage, transmission, booster pumps, and distribution <br />facilities must be constructed. Currently, sufficient funding is not available and no time <br />schedule is set. A condition is included to require the applicant to construct a private <br />water system which provides water to each lot. <br />In view of the recent Hawaii State Supreme Court's "PASH" and "Ka Pa'akai O <br />Ka Aina " decisions, the issue relative to native Hawaiian gathering and fishing rights <br />must be addressed in terms of the cultural, historical, and natural resources and the <br />associated traditional and customary practices of the site: <br />Investigation of valued resources: No formal archaeological reconnaissance <br />survey, oral history of kamaaina accounts of the area, historical survey of documentary <br />records, botanical and/or fauna study was submitted. <br />The valuable cultural historical, and natural resources found in the rezoning area: <br />As the site was formerly cultivated in sugar cane, an archaeological inventory survey of <br />the site was not conducted. By letter dated November 11, 2003 (Appendix A of the <br />application), the applicant has requested a "no effect" letter from the State Historic <br />Preservation Division. The DLNR-HPD has confirmed that no archaeological inventory <br />