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there and looked at this road, and we had water truck haulers bring two 6,000-gallon trucks side-by-side up that road, and park. And as Milton recognized, that this was not a safe road for two water trucks to pass each other, as which was designed, originally designed, to have two water trucks pass each other. But it’s not capable of doing that. And so, it’s now a one-lane, one-way road for water haulers, so that a water truck that’s 350 feet up at the standpipe, as it is exiting, has to now proceed with possibly water trucks on the road on Lehua Lane, and if there’s 15 trucks servicing the area, there’s a possibility of congestion on the highway… which is a 55-miles-per-hour road. So we… by not having a two-lane road with a long entrance road into that filling site, we’re actually opening up other problems out on the highway and our lane. So I think that has to still be addressed. The turn area on the bottleneck that we had… Milton addressed that issue with Bolton, and the extended that area, making it wider. There was an obvious bottleneck; it was not going to work the way it was, and so they agreed to widen that area at a cost of $20,000.00… I’m not sure what they came up with, Milton, but somewhere around there. But that issue still needs to be addressed as to whose taxpayers, I feel, should really be paying for, you know, design flaws that were… gravel that had been sold by the contractor to the public, and that gravel could actually have been used to expand that area. So that needs to be addressed. We also have… the final issue, I guess, that needs to be presented here is just that the water pressure on the site may not be adequate to fill the trucks in a timely fashion. It’s my understanding at this meeting that the water flow rate is considerably less than Nā‘ālehu. And maybe we can address certain issues, that we can get that flow rate higher… I think it’s like 150 to 175 gallons per minute, where on a 2-inch pipe in Nā‘ālehu… somewhere around 250. So it’s gonna take longer to fill the trucks, and so, what we have is… if you’re a resident in Kona, and you have water piped to your house, you can get 30,000 gallons for about $135.00. In Ocean View, it will cost you seven times that amount. It’s gonna cost $945.00 or so just to get 30,000 gallons. You know, we pay more for water… considerably more for water. And what we’d like… what we were hoping for, was to pay less… that the water trucks are gonna go down there, fill up and get back into the community so that we could, you know, cut our costs we’re paying… It’s a horrendous amount of money to have water. So because of the difficulties, these concerns, that… Some of them have been addressed, others haven’t. We’re still paying a very high amount of money for water. So… But other than that, we want the Department of Water Supply… I talked to several people… We feel very good about having them manage our site. I think that some of Milton’s engineers have maybe not come through as well as he had hoped for… and to maybe work with some of the… with the contractor… and some of these concerns fell by the wayside. I think we have total confidence in the County to do a good job here. So, anyway, thank you for your time. (Mr. Dubois left the meeting at 10:11 a.m.) (Mr. Kim left at 10:13 a.m.) 3) APPROVAL OF MINUTES The Chairperson entertained a Motion to approve the Minutes of the August 23, 2011, Public Hearing on the Power Cost Charge. ACTION: Mr. Meierdiercks moved to approve; seconded by Mr. Taniguchi, and carried unanimously by voice vote. The Chairperson entertained a Motion to approve the Minutes of the August 23, 2011, Water Board meeting. ACTION: Mr. Meierdiercks moved to approve; seconded by Mr. Lindsey, and carried unanimously by voice vote. The Chairperson entertained a Motion to approve the Minutes of the September 15, 2011, Special Meeting on the Selection of the new Manager-Chief Engineer. Page 3 of 29 9-27-11 ~ Water Board Minutes js