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Ms. Garson said that was a question for the Board to ask Corporation Counsel in Executive <br />Session. <br />Mr. Uyeda said yes, because this was something that the Board was hearing for the first time. <br />Ms. Lee Loy said that she had some questions before going into Executive Session. She noted <br />that last month, a number of wells were down amid all kinds of extenuating circumstances, and <br />meanwhile, DWS needed to deliver the water to its customers in the area. She asked what the <br />status was of the other wells. <br />Mr. Young said that DWS still had a few wells down. The Department had told the Board last <br />month that it expected the Honokohau Well to be back online by now. However, the transformer <br />got damaged in shipping; the problem is pretty superficial and can be repaired. The damage did <br />not affect the integrity of the transformer, but the transformer needs to be cleaned and tested. <br />That will set things back another month, Mr. Young said. He said he could come back at the next <br />meeting to provide an update on the Honokohau Well. <br />Mr. Uyeda asked if the transformer at the Hualalai Well was the same as the one at the <br />Honokohau Well. <br />Mr. Young said that he would have to double-check, but the transformer should be very similar in <br />size. He said Mr. Uyeda seemed to be hinting at something. <br />Mr. Uyeda said yes, so DWS could get the well online, if it had to. <br />Mr. Young said that even if it were the same size, it might be a different manufacturer, and the <br />footprint might be different. Therefore, it might not be a simple matter of swapping one thing for <br />another. However, DWS would do such a swap if it had to, Mr. Young said. He said that DWS <br />was just barely managing, but was managing. <br />Mr. Arikawa asked about the Holualoa Well. <br />Mr. Eric Takamoto of Operations Division said that Holualoa is still under standard repair, and <br />the contractor is proceeding as instructed. The pump and motor have been ordered, as well as the <br />transformer and cable. DWS needs to wait until the contractor finishes extracting the well, before <br />deciding whether the remaining material should be reused, or replacements should be ordered. <br />Mr. Arikawa asked when Mr. Takamoto expected the repair to be finished. <br />Mr. Takamoto said the completion date was slated for the end of this year, i.e., December 31. <br />Mr. Balog, reverting back to the Hualalai repair, asked how far along the contractor was in the <br />work. <br />Mr. Young said it would be easier to say what had not been done. The re -installation had not <br />been done, and the string test, which is the test of the pump and motor, has been stopped. The <br />order of the check valve has been stopped. Some major items could not be stopped because they <br />were already in progress: the pump and motor repair, the junction box fabrication, etc. All of <br />these are custom parts. He said that the discharge head and the column pipe were already <br />delivered. <br />Mr. Uyeda asked, with all of the reports in hand now, whether using the higher -temperature <br />motor could help. He said that the Board needed feedback from the staff on how confident they <br />were that the equipment would work, once it was put in the ground. <br />Page 7 of 15 Water Board Minutes 4-28-15 js <br />