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Bill 151 Flood Management -Brenda Ford Presentation -Transcription <br /> Kona Community Meeting - 700PM -October 9, 2007 -State Pavilion -Old Airport <br /> Page 2 of 3 <br /> in 24 hours over in the Puna, Hilo area, in 2000 I think it was. So, I don't know why they think it doesn't <br /> <br /> flood in Hilo, but there are people who believe that, or want to believe that. <br /> My greatest opposition on this bill is a group of engineers and architects who believe that we <br /> shouldn't do anything that's going to cost any more money, especially to any developers who are building <br /> <br /> these large subdivisions or commercial developments. I personally don't agree with that. You've heard <br /> <br /> Mr. Edgar talk about the flooding that's going on in his farm. I personally went out to see that flood. Mr. <br /> <br /> Pilago was with me, and that flooding exposed the entire root mats of the coffee trees. I don't know how <br /> much they lost that year in production but it's probably serious. We're getting flooding on our farm areas <br /> were going to have flooding. We've had flooding off of Lako St. There's some of the laterals off of Lako <br /> St., where they have 3 ft of water going through the house, because the uphill property had a wall, and it <br /> <br /> ponded, and it overflowed, into their house and down the street to the next one. <br /> We do not have a storm drainage system any place in this county. Our roads are the storm <br /> drainage system. And what looks like storm drains for those of us who come from other parts of the <br /> country, those are dry wells. The ls` inch of rain that falls will be collected in those dry wells, up to a ]0- <br /> year storm event. And after that, it goes down the street and into someone else's property. Repeatedly, [ <br /> have asked this group of engineers and architects, when you build an impervious surface, where there's a <br /> roof, sidewalk, road, driveway, whatever, that disallows water to percolate into the soil, what are you <br /> <br /> going to do with the water that now can't percolate in? And to date I have not had an answer. Because <br /> <br /> they don't want to answer that question of what to do with that water. They want to pretend like it's just <br /> <br /> going to vanish. But its not vanishing, it's going onto the neighbor's property or into our roads for us to <br /> <br /> have to deal with. <br /> This same group of architects and engineers went to the mayor presented him with their concerns. <br /> And I should have brought the paper with me, but in writing their solution to the flooding, whatever cause <br /> its coming from, was to have the tax payers, I'd like to quote this to you "Regional flood control projects <br /> will be an effective use of tax dollars (that's your money) and will solve flooding problems on a larger <br /> scale." While that's true, I personally resent sticking the taxpayer with the flood control projects, we <br /> should not be paying for something that is developer generated. That's my position. <br /> So I have been pushing the bill, we started with Bill 51, and after a multitude of changes, it got so <br /> cumbersome, that I've put in a new bill, 151. It's just a fluke that the numbers came out like that. And <br /> <br />