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WWTP. This project addresses health and safety, enhances quality of life, and provides service improvements. Some sewer infrastructure is being installed simultaneously with the State of Hawai'i's Department of Transportation project to widen the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway during Phase 2. This project meets with the General Plan of the County and the Kona Community Development Plan. The project promotes economic viability, preserves and protects the natural environment including the shoreline waters of the ocean, and promotes health and safety; and 5) North Kona Effluent Reuse Upgrade Project (Kealakehe WWTP R-I upgrade) and the Kealakehe Effluent Reuse-Makai Project require design and construction for upgrading the WWTP to produce R-l quality effluent. This will provide a source of suitable irrigation water to the public as well as significantly decrease effluent pumping into a seepage pit located mauka (toward the mountain) of the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway. The seepage pit has the potential to affect the shoreline waters of the ocean which are the home of endangered species. Effluent reuse infrastructure is intended to extend from the WWTP to Kohanaiki Industrial area and is being installed simultaneously with the widening of the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway. These projects along with the Kealakehe Effluent Reuse-Mauka Project (see Item 6 below) will make R-l quality effluent available to water medians and parks and minimizes potable water use in North Kona, preserves and protects the natural environment including the shoreline waters of the ocean where there are several endangered species, promotes health and safety, meets with the requirements of the county General Plan and the Kona Community Development Plan; and 6) The Kealakehe Effluent Reuse-Mauka Project requires land acquisition including easements, design and construction of wastewater reuse infrastructure at the WWTP and extends an R-l wastewater main mauka (toward the mountain) across the Ane Keohokalole Highway through the "Forest City" project to new R-l storage tanks near Ane Keohokalole Highway and Keanalehu Drive. This R-l effluent project may also serve the constructed wetland park that could replace the old Kona Landfill once that burning landfill has undergone a clean closure. The constructed wetland could serve to attract endangered avian wildlife away from the Kona International Airport where the 3