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Jerry wrote to most of you, I think. At my suggestion he called the termite company. He
<br />figured 50,000 gallons for the houses, for this project. WhereÓs that 50,000 gallons
<br />going? You just donÓt put it in the ground, forget it. Why would they come back and do
<br />it again? ÒCause it leaves, it disappears. Where does it go? Where it goes is down into
<br />these ponds and down to this ocean. And youÓre not going to find it by trying to test. I
<br />know how to run gafchromatograph, I know how to test for things. I sample all over the
<br />general area, IÓve done it for years. I was in charge of all of the pollution on Kauai for
<br />the Health Department. I was their environmental health specialist. Bruce Anderson put
<br />me in there special, fights some battles. And youÓre going to test it. If you think thereÓs a
<br />water quality program that will determine where the termicide went, you wonÓt find it
<br />Òcause when it comes out on the ocean, itÓs gone. You canÓt sample there. You can find
<br />indicator organisms, how much limu there is there. ThatÓs the way to go, how much, you
<br />know, anemone, how much coral, what happens to it. But by the t
<br />something wrong, the whole damn plateau is filled with the stuff
<br />and itÓll come out for years.
<br />How well do you know Honolulu? YouÓve all been to Honolulu. You know where
<br />Moiliili Library is? Well, I was safety director of PRI and the gas company. And under
<br />Moiliili Library thereÓs a pool of gasoline, two feet down, itÓs about four foot thick,
<br />quarter mile square. WhatÓs it doing there? ThereÓs another huge pool just south of Ala
<br />Moana, even bigger, comes up in gas company little meter things along the road. We
<br />have to face it. At one point, you couldnÓt throw a cigarette d
<br />because itÓll blow up. We tried to test the gas. Well, most of the additives have been
<br />absorbed out of it, itÓs old. Where does it come from? Up in N
<br />comes down. Why is a pool there? Because itÓs not normal soil, folks. Fire Department
<br />will tell you itÓs there, canÓt get it out. Nobody will take responsibility for pumping it
<br />out. Gas company pumped on it for a couple of months. We gave it up. Why is this
<br />peculiar pollution there? You know whatÓs happening under your feet all the time?
<br />Some of us have said, hey, asphalt roads. I saw only one study that ever looked at it; and
<br />they said, oh, asphaltines in the water that comes down through your asphalt road only go
<br />about 20 feet. Oh, really?
<br />My suggestion to you is this. If you ever put homes in there, homes are the most
<br />polluting source. The richer the home, the more likely the guy
<br />house, put the termicide in. You never see it, you donÓt care. I care. YouÓve ever been
<br />to QueenÓs Pond, QueenÓs Bath? QueenÓs Bath is a small puka jus
<br />nude beach was, down on the, in the park there. ItÓs the most delightful little 20-foot hole
<br />in the lava. And you go down, and thereÓs a tree growing on the bottom of the ledges
<br />where people could sit. They say Kaahumanu used to cheat there on Kamehameha. But
<br />you go to the water, itÓs fresh. ItÓs just a little salty. And thereÓs lichens, little colorful
<br />different kinds of lichens growing blue and green and yellow, all over the bottom. ItÓs
<br />like a little wonderland, little tiny fish. You put this project in, you say goodbye to
<br />QueenÓs Bath. ÒCause what comes in through the underground, if you donÓt stop the
<br />termicides and consider some of these underground pollutions, ten, fifteen years up the
<br />road, bingo. You want a sample for it? I tried a lot of stuff like that. I tried to put little
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