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road to get, to traverse the Hualālai Road. And you can see in those pictures perfect example.
<br />And so that creates a condition of safety concerns.
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<br />And then next thing I’d like to say is six weeks ago I was involved in a traffic accident on
<br />Hualālai Road; I was sitting at the bottom of Hualālai Road where it’s very steep, and there was
<br />a large truck with full gravel, Bolton truck, waiting to make a right turn onto Queen K. Highway,
<br />and because they don’t accelerate very fast, they waited and waited and waited for traffic, and a
<br />car came around the corner above, which has no line of sight, and because of gravel and sand on
<br />the road, could not stop and I got rear-ended right at the bottom of Hualālai Road where Bolton
<br />is going to have all their trucks going in and out. And they are still doing it to this day in
<br />violation of the conditions that they’ve been, accepted. And that’s that, so, anyway.
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<br />The last thing is I, a few years ago, I installed a new swimming pool, had a new swimming pool
<br />built at my house. We were having our homeowners meeting and people started talking about
<br />their swimming pools and the water conditions in their pools. And I said, well, when did this all
<br />start, what’s happening? They were talking about algae growing in their pools and everything.
<br />And I had just had my pool installed less than a year before, and I said I’m having the same
<br />problem, and everybody else that had pools in the room said, I’m having the same problem, too.
<br />So I talked to the pool people that service the pools, several of them, and they said, yes,
<br />everybody in this subdivision all of a sudden is having water problems with their pools, some of
<br />them won’t swim in their pools because of the algae. And they finally decided, or told me, it’s
<br />when Bolton started crushing rock at his base yard that was illegal, and crushing was illegal at
<br />the time, that all the calcium deposits went into the air, settled in your pool, and the water
<br />hardness in your pool went sky-high; it’s supposed to be 150, it went over 400. Mine was off the
<br />scale; they didn’t know how far over 400 parts per million it was. And so I went to the pool
<br />store, talked to the guys, and I said they should, what shall I do, they said there is only one thing
<br />to do, drain your pool, get rid of the water and refill it. So my pool’s less than a year old, I
<br />drained the pool, and several other people in the association drained their pools, and refilled
<br />them. And now mine is creeping up again; it’s up to 300 parts per million. At 400 I’m going to
<br />have to drain it again. I had a salt chlorinator in my pool, and the calcium in the pool clogged
<br />the whole chlorinator up, and so I had to get a new chlorinator, and I started to use the new one,
<br />and I saw it was starting to get clogged up, too, so I took it out. So now my salt chlorinator and
<br />hundreds of dollars of salt and everything are gone. So that’s the result, and there is no question
<br />that these pool problems were result of Bolton’s crushing rocks and base yard, and it’s created
<br />problems. And who knows what kind of health problems if it’s, it creates, if it’s that kind of a
<br />problem for your swimming pool, what does it do for your lungs?
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<br />UNGER: Thank you, sir. If you could summarize —
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<br />MADSON: So, thank you. I’m done.
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<br />UNGER: Okay. Thank you. Sir?
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<br />CULHANE: Bill Culhane. I’m testifying as an individual. Like many of the people here, I live
<br />in a house that’s less than a quarter mile away from the proposed crushing. And I disagree that
<br />the barrier between us and the operation is sufficient. Since Bolton Company was kind enough
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