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TAYLOR: I don't think it will reach. TUCKER: We need more cord. WOODWARD: He needs more cord. TAYLOR: It's okay, I'll just describe it. I'll just bring this closer. We have full water going underground through here. Above Highway 130 which is here, it's protected by, of course, Wao Kele o Puna Forest Reserve, Kahauale`a Natural Area Reserve, and maybe even further on. It's flowing under an area of land that some day is going to be densely settled. The original proposal in the PCDP was to give a little bit of extra protection to this area, about 5,000 acres. The Planning Director objected to that on a very good basis, that part of it is already settled, part of it is Hawaiian Home lands, about 2,000 acres of it; and all that is true. But we would like to, rather than to have disagreement over this, we'd like acknowledgment of the fact that this is, this underground water is a precious resource and it's going to eventually need to be protected somehow. You can't have a bunch of subdivisions in here all of which have cesspools and not eventually contaminate the water. Some day there's going to be a trigger point when this water is not going to be safe to use. And we don't just mean drinking water. It's water that eventually flows into the ocean and might be used for other purposes. And it's not just contamination from household use, it's contamination from runoff from roads and industrial uses. So we merely would like to see some recognition that this resource is deserving of some protection. And I can't go further than that. It's going to have to be some kind of containment of water that is generated by people in this area. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Do we have any questions? Okay -. TAYLOR: Well, there's one other point. Sony to be taking so much time. But we would like to certainly support what the Planning Director said at the very end of your comments before me, and that is there's strong support for community driven committees that might help to plan town and village centers. We strongly support and we very much agree with your statement on that subject. Thank you. WOODWARD: Thank you. Mr. Olson, you're on. (Commissioner Domingo left at this time, 12 noon.) OLSON: Here we go again. Well, what I would like to see you do with this is I would like you basically to take no action and send this back to the Council requesting that they bifurcate this so that your body can actually consider what my body, the CDP committee, did, this abbreviated version of two years, two plus years of work and some numbers of hundreds of thousands of dollars that the County paid for us to do this plan. And they've squashed it all into 11 pages; and they handed it off to you like you're supposed to understand it. And I think that's, from my side of the fence, demeaning at its best, given the amount of work that my community put into this, the hundreds of hours that the different committees, aside from our committee, put into coming up with this document, and then having it shoveled off and shuffled through in a matter of a few minutes without any understanding of why we did what we did. 7