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and the people from Waimea are relatives of the people in Kawaihae. So they impact what
<br />happens in Kawaihae. I don’t know if I’m getting across to you guys, but it’s important to us
<br />guys in that community.
<br />So No. 2, I do have stuff like the highway, the electricity, the water, and the wastewater
<br />treatment. Now, the wastewater treatment, when the conversation came up in the Focus Group,
<br />the answer was they didn’t know. So I’m assuming everybody gets septic tanks nowadays. But
<br />what happens to those up above us on both sides, do they still have some cesspools out there, or
<br />is there going to be construction of a treatment system that needs to be addressed by the County
<br />somehow to protect us down there?
<br />Okay, so the other one is the document itself is losing some stuff. Some of the communication
<br />that we had is not in here, and the maps that you show somehow is not what physical, if you go
<br />there and you take a look at it, it’s not the same thing. Example: there is the Kawaihae
<br />lighthouse, now, the lighthouse is depicted below the mauka subdivision; it’s nowhere close
<br />there, it’s not even close to the makai subdivision. So it’s very important that the information in
<br />this document is corrected because this is probably the first document that’s going to be talking
<br />about Kawaihae and it’s my personal opinion that there is going to be a lot of other governmental
<br />resources like EISs, Environmental Assessments and different agencies, even the harbor, I bet
<br />you, is going to use information from this document and the document is going to be wrong. So
<br />if this Planning Commission will include that third condition to put correct information into here
<br />– not only in the pictures but in the information that’s given in here, you know.
<br />Then there’s also things that I wanted to add, Page 2, I started, I wanted to do a good job for you
<br />guys, so I started making a list of stuff to include and what I thought was different, but it was just
<br />getting too tremendous a list. Like, No. 1, emergency shelters. Kawaihae has nothing. There is
<br />a subdivision for 217 homes that I know of, and the documentation says 214 in here. We are in a
<br />tsunami zone; we have no emergency shelters or whatever. So if you know Kawaihae during the
<br />earthquake, we’re going to go no place, we’re going to stuck at home. We couldn’t get to the
<br />highway cause a policeman told us, “You cannot leave.” The mountain on the highway, Akoni
<br />Pule, on the north was broken, so you had to wait for the State Department of Transportation.
<br />You couldn’t go south because the bridge was broken. Then you couldn’t go to the harbor,
<br />which is the only transportation through Kawaihae on the makai side, and that one was flooded
<br />out. And that happens with accidents, that happens with fires, that happens with flooding, that
<br />happens all kinds of times. So we need somehow to get an access out of there, or, and,
<br />emergency shelters in Kawaihae. Now, Hawaiian Homes has property that we could probably
<br />ask them for; but because they have no infrastructure, those things are negligible. So we are
<br />asking the County to come up with something, so that if we get stuck at home, I mean, even if
<br />we’ve got to go to the water tank at the top of the hill. The water tank is County, cause we get
<br />our water from Kohala Ranch in the North Kohala area -. But anyway, stuff like that. So I
<br />started making an attachment, but I figured if the Planning Commission will just make that
<br />resolution, and add it into today’s discussion, I’ll be very happy. And thank you very much.
<br />Any questions?
<br />WATANABE: Do we have any questions for Ms. Tanimoto? Seeing none, thank you for
<br />your testimony. And this will be added to the record, yeah, Ms. Tanimoto.
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