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YUEN: And it’s all used in a nursery as irrigation for the nursery? NANCE: At the present time, yes. YUEN: Do you know why they want to stop doing that? NANCE: They expect, well, I’ll tell you what I do know but I don’t know the whole story. I think they’re anticipating the sewage effluent load to continue to increase over time which will exceed what can be handled at the nursery, and the long-term viability of the nursery is in question; and the golf course has elected not to use it. So Hawaii American Water made their decision to go to the disposal well. YUEN: Because it would require this upgrade to R-1 because your golf course is near residences? NANCE: As a practical matter, yes. YUEN: Right. You know, this subsurface issue is, you know, we’ve been through this on other projects and I understand there’s a significant cost to upgrade a plant from R-2 to R- 1. Is there a simple way to solve the clogging-the-pipe problem that Mr. Lim is talking about, the filtering out so they can be used, R-2 water can be used for subsurface drip irrigation? NANCE: Yeah, my understanding is – it’s not really my area of expertise but I work with people who do – the emitters, resistance of clogging has improved greatly in recent times. But you’re still looking at having, very likely have a pressure filter situation where you took the R-2 effluent, run it through a pressure filter, and then into the subsurface R-2 irrigation system. But, you know, the plantations when they were doing drip with surface water, they did that same kind of filtering all over the place. YUEN: Yeah, I’m sorry the sound system, it may be my hearing or the sound system, I didn’t quite understand the last couple of sentences that you said. Could you say the last couple of sentences? NANCE: You mean the part about the plantation? YUEN: Yes, go ahead. NANCE: Yeah, when the plantation switched to drip irrigation they were taking surface water sources that had sat in reservoirs and had high torpidity during storm events; and, well, they always used filters and, in fact, chlorination before it went into the drip system. YUEN: Yes, okay. You know, that’s really all the questions I have; and I think the condition as worded is fine. You know, the way it was worded is “commercially reasonable,” which means that if there is some, you know, you have a problem using the water but there are some measures that you can take that are not exorbitantly expensive to fix it but that it would be commercially reasonable to implement that. I see Mr. Lim nodding his head in agreement; and EXHIBIT C 17