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HIRAKAMI: The backflow preventer? <br /> <br />GONZALES: I mean I hear your concerns. Is there something that you can do there, 5 feet from <br />the property? Can you put it in a -? <br /> <br />NOMURA: Microphone, please. <br /> <br />GONZALES: Can you lock it up or something? Cause I can see what you’re saying. <br /> <br />HIRAKAMI: Well, it’s going to be exposed, yeah. And then you need 2 feet clearance on either <br />side. So I’m going to be building a big box in the front yard. So you can have a cap on it. You <br />can have it surrounded on three sides, you need 2 feet of clearance to do it. So basically it will <br />be a, I’ll take my chances. I mean I’ll draw more attention to it if I build a boundary???, oh, <br />what’s that, you know? Let’s, looks important let’s fuss around with it. So the, you know, none <br />of the commercial businesses have it right now. But I think if they do come or they sell their <br />property, and they have it, I don’t know how they do it -. They say that in building, you know, <br />Pāhoa is really tight. You know, buildings are right next to it. They do allow people to put it <br />like go up and before it goes into the house they can put it up on the roof, on the second floor and <br />stuff, so long that there’s no outlet before that thing. It has to be the first, the last thing that, <br />before you prevent it. <br /> <br />So I’m trying to get around it -. And, you know, there is a solution that the Water Department <br />did say that if I dig up the line and I concreted it solid that they’ll allow us to put it up there. So I <br />figured that’s more trouble and expense than it’s worth so I decided to just take my chances <br />down there. But, you know, on the newer agricultural lots down in Kapoho, Vacationland, <br />they’ve all had to put in a backflow preventer and they’ve had umpteen problems with them. <br />And for the reasons that I said either vandalized or people come and -. There’s, there’s a way <br />you can open the meter valve and fill up a water bottle and stuff like that. So it’s kind of like <br />with all the foot traffic in front of our property I figured, you know, like the County water -. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Spigot. <br /> <br />S HIRAKAMI: Spigot or something, yeah. So, but -. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you, good luck with that. <br /> <br />HIRAKAMI: Yeah, yeah, we’ll deal with it. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you. <br /> <br />HIRAKAMI: Thank you. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Okay. Any further questions for the applicant, Commissioners? Thank you. <br />Public testimony at this time, we have three testifiers. Brooks Maloof? <br /> <br />MALOOF: Yes. <br /> <br /> <br /> 7 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />