2023_07_18 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Yellow maybe not and red is bad. And you can see where the breeze comes in on the south side that it takes all the flakes is there coming off the bridge and deposits them upwind and creates a problem – so we closed the park – not us but the County and then the Department of Transportation that owns a lot of the land – because of the risk being so high. Several portions of the park were so high that they failed PCLP which is a fancy word for a laboratory analysis and everything else that actually identifies that as a hazardous material by the US government, EPA, Department of Transportation and others and it’s because of this that material can’t even be disposed of legally in the State of Hawaii – so when this gets cleaned up these really hot, high concentrations of material are gonna have to get containerized, barged and shipped to the mainland and then they’re properly dispose of ‘em and what they usually end up doing is something called a “Macro encapsulation” making a concrete block – something that won’t leach and be able to move throughout the environment and then it’ll be residing in a lined landfill where the leaching collection system if anything does move it gets picked up in the water and treated so that’s been one of the drawbacks and why nothing’s gotten done and the park’s been closed for years – the Department of Transportation is responsible for the mess hasn’t had the money to clean it up. So, my job is to keep feeding on them in a civilized manner that says, hey, we have such limited access along the coast in this area that these treasures really need to be open so the public can benefit because between when Kolekole was closed and Hakalau there’s almost no access to the coastline in these areas. So, I’m a strong proponent since I live here even though my office is on Oahu, I’m trying to get this done. I’ve recently heard that the Department of Transportation has funding for bridge repairs and improvements and you’ve seen them do the Kolekole weight restriction and then that bridge repair and then some others and they’re trying to get the soil cleaned up under the same time that they’re doing bridge repair and some money for that so we’re hoping that that gets done in this year and that’s why they’ve asked me to hold the public comment period. There was a lot of studies that were done next slide… And they’ve shown different areas and different opportunities with different costs. Isolating like at Kolekole Beach Park where one small area is fenced to keep people out of the highest contamination if they pave over certain – there was a lot of studies and I don’t want to waste time talking about what we’ve done and we’re all online and available if you want to go read that – thanks – and these were the choices that were presented that the Department of Transportation studied, and you can see green is good, red is not, yellow is questionable. And the choice that’s all green was choice 5B and that is essentially, summing things up quickly digging up all the contaminated areas that are over the 200 milligram per kilogram – what are safe to your one limit is – hauling it off to be disposed of properly – bringing in clean fill and restoring the area. Other areas might, other options might be cheaper but they’re not as effective or they might have ongoing annual inspections, reports due, things like that that drive up the cost in the long term issues. So choice B was what their selection was and receiving public comments. Most of the people are in line with 5B, other’s say they don’t really care, just clean it up – we want access back and we’re tired of not being allowed to go to our community park in those areas. Questions for me. SW: I just note that it appears that Leomana – sorry this is Deputy Corporation Counsel, Sylvia Wan – had a number of comments in the chat – I don’t know if you want to share those comments or questions? TG: So, if you go to the next slide, again, my contact information – there’s phone numbers, email addresses, opportunities with the \[unclear\] if you have questions that you don’t want to ask during the forum. I am a public entity. Everything that we do is pretty much transparent and 14