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YUEN:But you're showing -, there's -. What I'm seeing is that you're filling in, there's a lobe of the flood plain there that sticks out toward Kilauea Street. You see what I'm showing that -? HANSEN:Right in here, this low spot. YUEN:Yeah, this -. HANSEN:Yeah, that's -. YUEN:Hang on a second. Let me come up and ask. HANSEN:Sure. Sure. YUEN:This whole area, this whole lobe here is part of the flood plain? HANSEN:Correct. YUEN:And so the lot is -, much of the lot is here, okay. You are filling -, so -, and the water goes over -, comes from a Puna direction? No? HANSEN:This is the flow here, and this is the flow we're concerned about. YUEN:Yes. Well, there's a flow that comes down Lanikaula Street and joins, but it joins this general flow that comes from the Puna direction and then flows toward Hilo Bay. And what you're showing is you're going to fill this area here, this lobe, to put the building on. HANSEN:Right. Correct. YUEN:Right? What happens to the water that used to go into this area here? BLACK:Bingo. YUEN:This lobe? HANSEN:It was determined by the CLOMR study that this is not really necessary for the flood plain. By filling this, it's not going to change the flood plain level, it's not going to change the flood plain. That was the work that the civil engineer did and reviewed by the County and by the FEMA and then by the County again. These -, I guess Kelly is probably more of an expert on this than I am, but these lines are just arbitrary drawing made on a map, and they weren't spec -, the areas were not specifically studied. And once we wanted to do this development, then we did a specific study of this whole area to see what was happening with the water, not just this, but this whole area was surveyed and looked at by the civil engineer, and then the determination made that this was not going to affect this main area. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to -, wouldn't have been allowed to do what we wanted to do or need to do. Does that make sense? 20