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water from this area and also above the street here collects here and it will flow down, either along here in a little ditch to a big, what is that, a swale right here . CARDOZA:Contour ditch. KIMA contour ditch which then takes it down towards Wainaku Street here. Failure to maintain this contour ditch and this also runoff swale here caused, you know, a lot of this soil and water to flow across the road which, you know, it eroded all the gravel along this road and also brought all the soil down, which is my property right here, into my driveway. It cost me several thousand dollars to repair, you know, my driveway because of this. What was the other question again? ALAMEDA:Director Yuen? YUEN:Yeah, what you just showed as far as, there was a contour area? KIM:There is one presently right here. YUEN:And, okay, what happened to that kept it so its not working right now? KIM:Well, they repaired it after the flood, after the damage to my property. But basically what it does is it fills up with all the debris from this huge area up here and also up here; and it just cant handle the amount of water thats coming down from this huge parcel. And it just overflows this road, which wasnt a problem before in the sugarcane days because if it flows across the road and it goes into this property, its not a problem. But now that, you know, theres going to be a house here, well, actually, excuse me, right here and this is the top of my lot here, it causes, you know, huge problems of the volume of water that can come across the road if these ditches and this contour ditch is not maintained. YUEN:Is there a drainage that directs it toward Honolii side across this property? KIM:Yes, yes. Its right here. YUEN:And does it go all the way across the property? KIM:It comes down here. And right here is the major contour ditch which sends it Hamakua and then it drops it pretty much straight down into the middle of Lalakeas property, which is a semi valley type of a, which drains it directly into Wainaku Stream. YUEN:Let me work on a condition on that because this is something that comes up as a problem. And what has happened over the years is the plantations had certain drainage systems and they often went across property lines. And, in this case, its all on one property. But if we do a subdivision its going to be, there will be different properties involved, and the different property owners may not want the water to come across their property. But thats the way that, thats the logical for it to move across the property. So in other areas we have been trying to put conditions on subdivisions that say that they have to maintain these existing systems and as drainage easements. So let me work on a condition that would discuss this. 20EXHIBIT D