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NAVA: My property is located -. Paul and Shelley are directly makai of the subject property,
<br />and my property is, I’m in Keala Plantation Estates, which is the subdivision directly south, and
<br />we are the first house in the subdivision, the very first one.
<br />HOUSEL: Could you maybe point your location on -?
<br />NAVA: Let’s see, yeah, we are right there, okay? And what happened when all the water came
<br />down – oh, I’m sorry, we are right there, yeah, right there, because this is Paul and Shelley’s cul-
<br />de-sac right here and this is the subject property, so we are right here – when all the water came
<br />down, sorry, not from the subject property yet, but certainly when it came down from the
<br />clearing, clear cutting in the construction on this property, the water ran along this boundary line
<br />right here, which is the boundary line between Paul and Shelley’s property and Keala Plantation
<br />Estates. All the people who live in the Estates, well, we all have rock walls right here along this
<br />wall, almost all of us. My husband and I had built a substantially tall rock wall right here – it’s
<br />probably, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were maybe 20-foot high from the base. We were
<br />concerned that it would become undermined. And in fact, when the water flooded, it started
<br />running all the way down. We thought we would lose our wall completely. Now, who was
<br />going to pay for that? We didn’t want to have to get a new wall. We didn’t want to have to ask
<br />our new neighbors to give us a new wall. I’m sure they would have worked with us. But just
<br />imagine, the impact of all of this -. This is almost four acres up here being constructed, clear cut
<br />graded. And then, of course, you are not leaving the trees, which are a buffer zone. So all the
<br />water is going to go down to the highway. It’s a really steep decline onto Mmalahoa Highway.
<br />I wish that I had brought pictures so that you could see what the difference is in the levels. So
<br />my concern is, when Paul and Shelley were having their work done, all this water came out and
<br />it was trying to undermine our walls, which we were very concerned about – they were
<br />concerned. And also, all this water was going out into the highway, onto Mmalahoa Highway.
<br />So this was just one small, this was just one house they built. Just imagine, this large
<br />commercial project – it’s going to be a nightmare, I tell you. And if you allow this to go forward
<br />and it causes a lot of damage, the County of Hawai‘i will be sued, I’m sure, because the
<br />homeowners will not know where to go. So, you know, we don’t want to do this, we want to be
<br />respectful, but -.
<br />HOUSEL: Thank you.
<br />NAVA: Yeah, you are very welcome.
<br />HOUSEL: Any other questions, Commissioners?
<br />GIFFIN: Mr. Chairman, I don’t know if it’s Ki that we should ask, but I would like to have
<br />some explanation about the ownership of the road.
<br />HOUSEL: Right. I’d like to have, after we finish the testimony, Mr. Emler come forward and
<br />talk to us a little bit. Thank you.
<br />GIFFIN: Okay, thank you.
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