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SW: Thank you. <br /> <br />TG: It takes about two click and for example my office deals with a lot of things. If someone might <br />have heard of Red Hill recently…. Ah, we respond to that as an emergency response sampling <br />water – we hold the Navy accountable – we spent hours and hours in litigation with them – <br />making sure that they’re held in compliance. People really don’t trust government entities, but I <br />try to get out and rub elbows with people to make sure that they know that I’m here for you – I <br />don’t work for the Navy – I’m not funded by them – I’m not their puppet. Other things we do is <br />the current thing is P-fast. I don’t know if anybody’s hearing about these – four \[unclear\] <br />chemicals. You’re starting to see commercials similar in the \[unclear\] if you were exposed to <br />aqueous firefighting foam in the military, please call us so we’ve recently had some drinking <br />wells on Oahu test positive for P-fast. My office has done a variety of studies as this contaminant <br />spreads its way through society, fish purchased at the market, fresh caught for these <br />contaminants, bio solids at the Hilo Pump Station when they’re not pushing untreated material <br />out Keaukaha, ah, as well a variety of things like that. We get grants from the EPA to study these <br />things and so we can put together sampling proposals and do – collect data for the public – <br />that’s really what we’re here for. <br /> <br />AA: Thanks, Thomas. Ah, Abraham, District – 5, so got a question from the public. Hakalau soil <br />remediation – any mileage studies of lead affecting fish, reef in the area? <br /> <br />TG: We have not studied migrating of lead or arsenic out to the terrestrial through – into the marine <br />eco-system. That, we just haven’t had the ability to do that, we are looking at off the Maui <br />Airport studying the mechanism for the P-fast chemicals because they’re had a fire-fighting <br />foam releases and they’re very close to the ocean like Daniel K. Inouye International Airport is. <br /> <br />AA: So, do you think that the people that would be doing the studies for the lead would be more like <br />Department of Aquatic Resources? <br /> <br />TG: They might be able to help you with that. We can deal with the toxicity and the leach ability and <br />the fact that lead isn’t very soluble, so it has a tendency to settle out in the environment and not <br />necessarily be something that in in a turbulent environment. Again, my favorite thing to eat is <br />billfish – and that’s probably one of the worst things out there because it is highest in mercury <br />or heavy metals because of those kind of a things that, you know, at my age I don’t care I’m <br />gonna live a little. <br /> <br />LT: Aloha, District – 3, Leomana again, getting back to the aquatics so are you also the person that I <br />call if I wanted to talk to about sunscreens and in our fishing areas and sunscreen pollution in <br />our wild fish animals – our game animals? <br /> <br />TG: DLNR had a – again alphabet soup – Department of Aquatic Resources DAR Division – I think <br />they’d be the ones to discuss about that. I may have knowledge in that but it’s not my purview – <br />I deal with cleaning up hazardous materials. <br /> <br />LT: OK. <br /> <br />TG: I’d like to be an expert on everything, but I am not. <br /> <br />16 <br /> <br /> <br />