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land that goes towards the back at which I never cleaned that section out, okay. So that bridge works as a dam between the one pond and the second pond. Okay. But in the center of that there’s a little section where the water flows back and forth. So we can actually, there’s actually places to put the pilings right along the bridge. In 2006, 2008, you know, I’m not near as grandiose now as I was then. I want just a little retirement home; and if that bridge doesn’t work, it’s gone, you know. I just wanted a separate office. I’m a photographer, and I just wanted a place to put in an office and a photographer’s studio. SIRACUSA: I can understand that. I was just trying to visualize how you were going to do this because I was also concerned, you know, pilings in the pond and you’re impacting the biowater and that sort of thing. My third question though has to do with whether, you know, how you’re going to put in either a cesspool or a septic because when I, I was there earlier before some of the other people arrived and I walked out to the tide pools as you recall while I was waiting and I noticed that in some of the pools there was a lot of foamy stuff that looked like it maybe there was effluent escaping from some of the cesspools and things in the area. So I was wondering, I don’t want to say it on the record. But I was wondering how with the anchialine ponds right there on your property and where the water table is sometimes above your property level, how on earth are you going to deal with cesspool or septic effluent without contaminating the ocean that’s right there through the rise and fall, tidal rise and fall of your ponds and the water table? SULLIVAN: It’s a really important, important problem out at Kapoho. The Planning Department and Department of Health are requiring that we use an aerobic system. Now if you think when you go to the big cities and you think of those things going around mushing up all the – you got the idea? Okay, we have to put same thing in a smaller, in a smaller form, is the way I understand it. Okay, and then the water that comes out of that is supposed to be 90 percent clear water; I think it’s 90, and please don’t hold me to that because it has been a while since I’ve. looked at all the information on the aerobic systems. But it is totally different. It’s a very, very expensive system. It’s just not a septic system in a leach line. And, yes, there are leach lines but this aerobic system is continuously turning the solids, and it’s supposed to bring out just really clear -. It has to be checked every six months by engineers, by the health engineers. You know, I don’t think it’s Department of Health. I think it’s somebody that contracts. It has to be checked that everything’s maintained, the bacteria count is high, the way it supposed to be. And it would be lovely if everybody on the lagoon and on the makai side of the road have the same thing. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Yes. WOODWARD: If I might just try and add a little something to your response. These aerobic systems have been approved by the Department of Health for use within a radius of 1,000 feet of the water wells in the State. So, they are evidently a very good system. And I think that would certainly be adequate. People that are building homes within a 1,000 foot radius of a water well have to put in that same sort of system to avoid ground water contamination; and evidently they work very well. 15