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VITOUSEK: Okay.
<br /> DEFRANCO: So, can anybody speak to Lako Street? Can anybody give mean update on Lako
<br /> Street, what that means? Anybody would care?
<br /> KERN: Yeah, I can say that I spoke with the landowner and his representative on what some
<br /> potentiality—and I don't have specifics honestly, they didn't give it to me but I talked with him
<br /> and the mayor. It's a really big priority to get Lako Street, you know, put in there, trying to do it
<br /> in basically a public-private partnership type of way, because, as you guys know, that the
<br /> landowner there, it runs through, hit, you know, their property. So that conversation is going,
<br /> and Bobby Command is also working with them. I don't have a lot of specifics we can give
<br /> other than it is going. I did shake the landowner's hands about four weeks ago saying hi, and we
<br /> had the beginning of the conversation. So it's in motion. I think we'll be hearing quite a bit
<br /> more of it. I think they are trying to avoid what happened last time where they kind of made an
<br /> announcement and said, hey, this is happening, and then things started to change, because a lot of
<br /> people got their hopes up, I know I certainly did, and then all of a sudden, it's like what
<br /> happened? So whatever they are doing, however it comes out, want to make sure that's very
<br /> actionable, and we are on board to make sure that the process is as responsible and as smooth
<br /> and as efficient as possible.
<br /> DEFRANCO: And one more question, the wastewater connectors on Alii Drive, is anything
<br /> happening with, anything along there, Kahaluu Park and in that whole area of those homes that
<br /> aren't connected to sewer lines? Has anything ever happened with those?
<br /> KERN: I personally don't have an answer to that. I'm not sure if any of my team members do,
<br /> but we can certainly inquire with DEM and shoot you folks, shoot you back a note on that at
<br /> least or put you in the contact with the person that could answer that directly
<br /> DEFRANCO: And then with the new wastewater plant, is there one happening? I heard we had
<br /> a deadline with the federal, some kind of federal EPA thing for Kealakehe wastewater place.
<br /> KERN: Yeah, they are working on that. There is an item in the CIP request right now that
<br /> involves that. They are actually looking at potentially changing from the lagoon into actual sand
<br /> filtration system that could turn it into the R1. That could actually have some good ramifications
<br /> about how that would move forward in a positive way. My understanding is that they are
<br /> working on a section of that here coming up and basically testing that out, so that is in motion.
<br /> My understanding is that that wastewater treatment facility, it does basically five million, they
<br /> can do five million gallons a day, but once kind of the West Hawaii Business Park is, you know,
<br /> filled out, some of these areas, we are going to be at capacity, so it's, now looking at, is there an
<br /> expansion, is there a new area? And the other thing with Kealakehe, it's also in—we need to
<br /> really look at it from a resilient standpoint with climate change and sea level rise, etcetera. So
<br /> that's the conversations that we are having with them, and they are working on it, not as fast as
<br /> we want it to be done.
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