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A couple of other things weÓre a little concerned about have to do with quality of water in the Puna Watershed. And we might have some disagreement here, but the original, as you can read in my statement, the original intent was to protect this part -. NOMURA: Microphone please. TAYLOR: I donÓt think it will reach. TUCKER: We need more cord. WOODWARD: He needs more cord. TAYLOR: ItÓs okay, IÓll just describe it. IÓll just bring this closer. We have full water going underground through here. Above Highway 130 which is here, itÓs protected by, of course, Wao Kele o Puna Forest Reserve, KahaualeÒa Natural Area Reserve, and maybe even further on. ItÓs flowing under an area of land that some day is going to be densely settled. The original proposal in the PCDP was to give a little bit of extra protection to this area, about 5,000 acres. The Planning Director objected to that on a very good basis, that pait is already settled, part of it is Hawaiian Home lands, about 2,000 acres of it; and all that is true. But we would like to, rather than to have disagreement over this, weÓd like acknowledgment of the fact that this is, this underground water is a precious resource and itÓs going to eventually need to be protected somehow. You canÓt have a bunch of subdivisions in here all of which have cesspools and not eventually contaminate the water. Some day thereÓs going to be a trigger point when this water is not going to be safe to use. And we donÓt just mean drinking water. ItÓs water that eventually flows into the ocean and might be used for other purposes. And household use, itÓs contamination from runoff from roads and industrial uses. So we merely would like to see some recognition that this resource is deserving of some protection. And I canÓt go further than that. ItÓs going to have to be some kind of containment of water that is generated by people in this area. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Do we have any questions? Okay -. TAYLOR: Well, thereÓs one other point. Sorry to be taking so much time. But we would like to certainly support what the Planning Director said at the very end of your comments before me, and that is thereÓs strong support for community driven committees that might help to plan town and village centers. We strongly support and we very much agree with your statement on that subject. Thank you. WOODWARD: Thank you. Mr. Olson, youÓre on. (Commissioner Domingo left at this time, 12 noon.) OLSON: Here we go again. Well, what I would like to see you do with this is I would like you basically to take no action and send this back to the Council requesting that they bifurcate this so that your body can actually consider what my body, the CDP committee, did, this abbreviated 7 EXHIBIT B