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slide" <br /> Water Supply <br /> • Neighbors already experience low water pressure even at lower elevations. <br /> • The developer insists that, having paid for 450 water meters, he will be <br /> constructing 450 units, despite our already challenged supply. <br /> Drought <br /> • Kona and all Hawaii faces current and predicted increasing drought conditions; <br /> climate change causes greater weather uncertainty, increasing drought risk. <br /> Sewage Hookup / Wastewater Treatment <br /> • The Developer had expressed his plan to connect to the Pualani Estates sewer <br /> system, however the Kealakehe sewage treatment plant is already OVER capacity <br /> if all current homes were hooked up, as required by law. The only reason there is <br /> capacity today is because all current homes are not yet connected. <br /> Rainwater / Landscaping Runoff/ Diverting Streams <br /> • Because of the siting of Royal Vistas on the leeward flank of Hualalai's "shield" <br /> configuration, well-defined drainage features are lacking, as noted under <br /> the FLOOD HAZARD section on p3-1 of the Grey Infrasructure Report in <br /> the Kona Community Development Plan. , will cause additional episodes of <br /> flooding and road wash-out as noted in the runoff and pollution, harming coral <br /> reefs and damaging the ocean. <br /> Horseshoe Bend and the Holualoa Stream on the parcels are listed in the <br /> second paragraph of 3.1 .1, (under the heading North Kona Flood Hazard <br /> Analysis,) as two of the seven intermittent drainage ways studied by the North <br /> Kona Flood Plain Management Study (1984) by the US Soil Conservation Service <br /> (presently Natural Resources Conservation Service. (The developer has already <br /> diverted a portion of these: see attached photo of "plywood".) <br />