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<br /> RESOLUTION NO. 64u J-el
<br /> A RESOLUTION URGING THE STATE BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES TO
<br /> CONSULT WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE DIRECT TRADITIONAL,
<br /> CULTURAL,AND FAMILIAL TIES TO THE DISTRICT OF PUNA TO ESTABLISH
<br /> APPROPRIATE NAMES FOR THE FISSURE 8 VENT AND OTHER FEATURES OF
<br /> THE 2018 ERUPTION OF KILAUEA VOLCANO.
<br /> WHEREAS, Section 4E-1 of the Hawai`i Revised Statutes states that the State Board on
<br /> Geographic Names shall be composed of the chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural
<br /> Resources, the chairperson of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the chairperson of the Hawaiian
<br /> Homes Commission,the director of the Office of Planning, the president of the University of
<br /> Hawai`i, the state land surveyor, and the director of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, or their
<br /> respective representatives; and
<br /> WHEREAS, Section 4E-3(a) of the Hawaii Revised Statutes states that the State Board
<br /> on Geographic Names "...shall designate the official names and spellings of geographic features
<br /> in Hawaii and provide for circulation thereof to the appropriate state and other agencies. In its
<br /> deliberations, the board shall solicit and consider the advice and recommendations of the
<br /> appropriate county government officials, and, should the board desire, other knowledgeable
<br /> persons."; and
<br /> WHEREAS, following a magmatic intrusion into the East Rift Zone of Kilauea volcano,
<br /> the first of two dozen fissures erupted on May 3, 2018, near Mohalu Street in Leilani Estates; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the eighth fissure, known as Fissure 8, opened on May 5, 2018, near Luana
<br /> Street in Leilani Estates, and briefly erupted lava fountains an estimated 230 feet high, sending a
<br /> slow-moving lava flow approximately 0.6 miles northward and covering many homes in the
<br /> subdivision; and
<br /> WHEREAS, Fissure 8 reactivated on the night of May 23, 2018, sending a fast-moving
<br /> flow northward that crossed Pohoiki Road, surrounded Puna Geothermal Venture, crossed
<br /> Highway 132, covered Noni Farms Road and Railroad Avenue, inundated papaya farm land,
<br /> crossed Highway 137, entered Ka Wai a Pele (Green Lake), burned hundreds of homes in
<br /> Kapoho Farm Lots, Kapoho Vacationland, and Kapoho Beachlots, filled in Kapoho Bay, and
<br /> destroyed the Wai`opae Tidepools Marine Life Conservation District; and
<br /> WHEREAS, eruptive activityfrom the 23 other fissures have become concentrated at
<br /> Fissure 8, where a gushing fountain has built a broad cone approximately 180 feet high; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the U.S. Geological Survey defines a volcanic fissure as an"elongate
<br /> fracture or crack at the surface from which lava erupts,"making"Fissure 8" an inaccurate name
<br /> for the large tephra cone located on the East Rift Zone within Leilani Estates; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the ongoing eruption is creating numerous other new and unnamed volcanic
<br /> features, including but not limited to the enlarged crater or nested caldera at Halema`uma`u, the
<br /> collapsed crater at Pu`u `O`o,the line of fissures and steam vents extending through Leilani
<br /> Estates and Lanipuna Gardens, the ocean entry at Malama Ki Forest Reserve, and the
<br /> channelized lava flow to the ocean at Kapoho Bay; and
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