2019-03-19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (Amended)

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 19, 2019 NP: You can’t use poisoned albezias for agriculture.- as far as mulch because it’s got herbicide in it... KO: Right... NP: There is such a thing as thermal pollution and algae blooms – is that an issue? KO: And that’s what I was saying – the one degrees C is within the state and federal guidelines so we run thermal studies and our thermal studies as of right now show a lot, lot lower than that so... NP: Of the fishermen out there – have you seen algae blooms? Where the hot water – where the temperature thermal change? ?: \[Not speaking in mic\] NP: Right, because algae blooms – they kind of associate them with ciguatera and that kind of thing. ?: Yeah, right out front of the facility it shows the damage already, yeah? So \[unclear not speaking in mic\] he’s talking about like the water putting back into the aquifer... JMG: I’m Jerry Medeiros-Garcia from Pepeekeo – Shoreline chairman. He mentioned that he wasn’t wanting to inject that back into the aquifer – the 21.6 million gallons will be contaminated when they withdraw that water. NP: I was concerned about thermal pollution... JMC: Yeah... NP: And algae blooms... JMC: Yeah, right now - They tried already – they tried a couple times but so, um, that water when they injected chemicals – over 2,000 chemicals going be in that water to help cool off the turbine, right? They gonna inject that back into the aquifer – that’s supposed to come out at the shoreline. TN: How many does it? Two thousand? JMC: Yeah, you know each chemical get more chemicals in ‘em, you know what I’m saying... So it is a problem for them to inject that water back into the aquifer – there’s a chance of contaminating the aquifer, you know, I no care how much chemicals... 10