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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – February 11, 2020 <br />Waiakea – does it flow all the way down to Wailoa area? Do you know that <br />these rivers overflows? <br /> <br />DF: Yeah, no, so what I’m referring to is the fresh water lens. There’s actually <br />several spots in Waiakea Pond, I mean, they used to be huge when I was <br />growing up in the Sixties. I mean, it was like – it’s like Ice Pond. Are you <br />familiar with Ice Pond? <br /> <br />TN: Yes... <br /> <br />DF: You know in Ice Pond there’s that one area where there’s all these fresh <br />water keeps pumping out and that’s why that area is so clean, right, and so <br />cold. Well, there’s a couple spots in the Waiakea Pond that has the same <br />type of open, fresh water spots – and it would just dump millions and millions <br />of gallons of water where it would be gushing out. And that’s sort of dying out. <br />As you draw out from the aquifer in other spots that amount of water is slowly <br />diminishing – so I think that’s what the challenge is right now. There’s got to <br />be a balance between the development and demand for fresh water and the <br />need to maintain X amount of fresh water to continue to flow out of Waiakea <br />Pond and like any fish pongs you’re gonna find one of the critical element of a <br />sustainable fish pond is the fresh water source. You cannot just have all salt <br />water. You going need that fresh water source to come into the fish pond to <br />revitalize and stimulate certain growths and one of them is limu, right? You <br />know the brown moss that – you go to the ice pond you see ‘em a lot because <br />of the fresh water and then the cold temperature and so that’s why it’s critical <br />to have fresh water – it’s because of the temperature, the clarity of the water <br />and it allows the limu eleele – the brown moss limu to grow and that brings – <br />helps feed the mullet and some other species. So I think... <br /> <br />TN: When the bay area floods do you think because the fresh water isn’t flowing <br />out... <br /> <br />DF: No. No, no, no. OK, so that phenomenom is called surface flow. So what <br />happens is that... <br /> <br />AA: Excuse me, um, that’s kind of like off topic so... <br /> <br />DF: Yes, yes... <br /> <br />AA: We need to get going... Yeah, you and Teresa can have that conversation <br />when... <br /> <br />DF: Sure, sure, no problem, no problem... <br /> <br />AA: talk to each other. <br /> <br />20 <br /> <br /> <br />