2020-09-23 EMC Meeting Agenda and Director's Informational Report

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03/23/22: WWTP and Phase 1 Collection System Design completion. 04/30/22: Advertisement for bids-Phase 1 Construction. 12/20/23: Pāhala LCCs closure. C. LONO KONA SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: • Construction has been completed. All mains have been installed. CCTV inspection was completed on 11/06/19. Pre-final walk through was performed on 10/30/19. Final walk through was conducted on 11/19/19. • Letters to property owners signaling the start of the 180-day mandatory connection requirement were mailed on 11/12/19. The letters state that hook- up to the county sewer must be done by 05/10/20. Compliance deadline was extended to 07/09/20 due to COVID-19. Notice of Violation Letters for non- connected TMKs were mailed on 07/23/20. • Current hookup count as of 09/11/20: 58 out of 112 TMKs have connected. Out of the 112 TMKs, 18 are vacant lots. With the remaining 36 TMKs that have not connected, 25 received extensions while the remaining 11 have not responded to the Notice of Violation letter. • USDA Rural Development has obligated loan and grant funds of $2,437,000 and $4,024,800 respectively to this project. USDA’s Amendment 1 (dated 07/25/18) provided additional loan and grant funding to cover cost overruns. An additional loan of $3,699,000 and grant of $1,071,000 were added to the original agreement. The low construction bid received was $8,531,814. D. KEALAKEHE WWTP EFFLUENT R-1 UPGRADE: • The Archaeological Inventory Survey (AIS) that is required by SHPD is proceeding. The AIS report to SHPD was completed in early December 2019. SHPD required a 30-day consultation period due to cultural sites that were identified. The 30- day consultation period was extended because of comments received by DLNR’s Historic Trails branch. The findings from the 30-day consultation period have been incorporated into the AIS. The completed AIS was submitted to SHPD on 03/20/20. SHPD’s review comments were received 07/08/20. The AIS will be revised and resubmitted by early November 2020. The anticipated EIS schedule is the following:  Resubmit AIS (to SHPD): November 2020  Receive SHPD Approval on AIS: February 2021  Prepare Final EIS: March 2021  Publish Final EIS: June 2021 • The project has been placed “on-hold” by the mayor because of funding issues and the Maui County (Lahaina WWTP injection wells) U.S. Supreme Court appeal. • With the SCOTUS decision, WWD has begun work to award a contract for a consultant to perform a tracer/dye study to determine if KWWTP effluent disposed via the sump is reaching coastal waters (state waters). The previous USGS/DOH study is being used to guide this study. • Other Impacts of the SCOTUS decision/mayor’s “on-hold” of the Project: 12