2021-01-07 Windward Exh A (Public Testimony USE 20-000084)

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home is and I'm also really interested to know how they are wanting to build this tower directly on where the lava just came underground and it's still sitting underground. This is a place where the dike of the 2018 eruption just came right under us. It cracked open my driveway. I haven't lived there for the last two and a half years but I just moved back home about a month and a half ago because I'm in the process of still building my home. I got this letter a few "—" about this. We do use this area for gathering, we do plant"—"we lost so much from to the ohia rod already in these forests. Like Chrystal mentioned, I do have bats, I do have owls, and I do have hawks. So, one of my questions to you folks is, is there going to be a 106 (C)process that's conducted with the lineal descendants and cultural descendants of the area. That's my "—"you know I'm really concerned with the monitoring of emissions from these towers. CAMERO: One minute left. KEALOHA: Thank you and so I'd like to see how they are going to circumvent this in the event this facility is actually able to be built because I'm completely not in support and I hope that my neighbors around me were able to submit their written testimony this morning. Unfortunately, my husband who was going to testify this morning was unable to make it. He had to work but, he is also concerned for the safety of our children because this home of ours that we built will be our children's home and our grandchildren's home. So, I really hope that you take into consideration that we are not in support of this being right across the street from our house. I appreciate your time today for listening to us and I do want to know if the 106 (C)process is going to be followed. Thank you. REPLOGLE: Thank you. Fellow Commissioners, do we have any questions for Leila? AU: Mr. Chair I have a question. REPLOGLE: Mr. Au. AU: Thank you Chair. Thank you, Ms. Kealoha for coming and testifying. Question to you is, you said that the lava flowed, the lava flow is flowed directly under where the tower was, can you just elaborate on that. Is that exactly where the proposed tower is going to be is that where there was lava? KEALOHA: Yeah, it's right there, I mean so if you talk to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaii Volcanoes Observatory the dike of lava expands anywhere from three hundred (300) to five hundred(500) feet wide underground and the depth of it is anywhere between fifty (50) to a hundred (100) meters underground. Right where my home is at, if you look on Highway 130 all the cracks that opened up on the Highway there was about I don't know eight (8) or ten (10) or so that opened up on the Highway. It's just before the, the road that goes up to into the Sanford's I`ilewa area and so it's either directly on top of it or right next to it. The property that is located right next to where the proposed facility is Heida is her name and she actually had some of the hottest cracks in the ground of recorded temperatures in that area. So, it's like right next door to that and so, the dike it stills sits there the lava underground is still 4 EXHIBIT A