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Director Mansour said that has been under discussion. Even fixing these transfer stations <br />requires money. And most of our challengescome down to money.If you have money you can <br />do anything. That’s where it stands now, they need to set a priority. We’re going to ask staff to <br />get better number of how many people have trailers. It could be once a month, not once a <br />week. <br /> <br />Commissioner Olson said he was on the committee that did the design of the Kea‘au Transfer <br />Station and we had long discussions about the most efficient design for a transfer station. <br />Basically, none of the county facilities meet the standards that were set in the beginning for <br />that, primarily because it is not a pull-through environment. You have people backing up to the <br />bins. And the last thing you want to do is have someone put car in reverse. He visited the <br />transfer stations that were in the ‘Ewa area of O‘ahu, and they had three transfer stations <br />there, and they were all pull-through. The volume they could handle far exceeded anything we <br />have here on this island. What you have to do is look at the successful design elements <br />of a transfer station. So there is quite a bit of documentation if you can look up the <br />development of the Kea‘au Transfer Station. <br /> <br />Director Mansour agreed. He used to design these transfer stations. You don’t want to have <br />vehicles backing into that because it takes time and when you have a huge line, you’re going to <br />have every vehicle trying to back up and get into a chute. It has to be like a pull-through chute. <br />You drive in, drive out. You don’t drive in and try to maneuver, so imagine you are driving in <br />with a trailer and you are trying to back your trailer in with the right spot, and you hold traffic. <br />So you are right. It has been a challenge with the way these transfer stations have been <br />designed. He visited and watched the operations in Kealakehe. Every vehicle comes in, the <br />other vehicles have to wait for them to maneuver around and back up into the chute. It’s just <br />time-consuming. If we are going to redesign it, it’s going to cost money so we need to <br />reconsider that. <br /> <br />4. Wastewater Division Projects and Updates <br /> <br />Vice Chair Gaffney said the North Kona Sewage Pump Station was reported to be moving <br />forward. A West Hawai‘i Today article appeared to include a connection, and the story and map <br />showed a connection from the pump station, across Kealakehe Parkway, all the way to the <br />wastewater treatment plant. What it doesn’t show is whether or not there is a recycled water <br />line coming back from plant as part of the sewage pump. Is that in the plan and can that be <br />added? <br /> <br />Director Mansour said that the newspaper unfortunately did not contact him for comment <br />because they just took the information out of the environmental assessment. <br />Wastewater Division Deputy Chief Eric Takamura said from the harbor stubouts we <br />have in our north and south pipeline distribution design, an R-1 distribution line and a double- <br />barrel force main that will hook up the North Kona SPS to the Kealakehe WWTP. The recycled <br />21 <br /> <br /> <br />