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UNGER: Great, thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions of the applicant?
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<br />KAHOLO: Good morning.
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<br />REDDING: Good morning.
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<br />KAHOLO: My question is this: If I remember right, there is no existing sewer line attached to that
<br />property, heading down to the sewage plant. Are you folks going to do anything with that?
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<br />HARRIS: Right. Looking at this lower – yeah, well, actually, either one of those, let’s look at the
<br />upper picture looking east – the sewer line runs under Ho‘ohana Street but it’s about another 6-800
<br />yards toward Kawaihae, and then it’s a force main coming up from the Orchid Hotel and the whole
<br />urban area, and then it goes out to, the sewer treatment plant at Mauna Lani is a private plant, but
<br />it’s out beyond there. Our original intention was to hook up to that, but they are saying, the
<br />engineers are saying we can’t tap into that force main; we have to lay a whole new one. So we, the
<br />condition says we can comply with the Health Department requirements, which probably means, if
<br />we can’t solve the hookup to the force main, is to put a sewage system underneath the parking lots
<br />at the site. So we’ll comply with the Department of Health requirements, but it’s not, not, it’s
<br />proba- it’s fifty-fifty or less that we’ll hook up to the Mauna Lani sewer.
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<br />KAHOLO: Yeah, my question is because of, you know, you have a plan for restaurant in place.
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<br />HARRIS: Yeah.
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<br />KAHOLO: And, you know, a restaurant does, you know, do a lot of movement of whatever waste
<br />is there.
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<br />HARRIS: Right.
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<br />KAHOLO: So that is my question pertaining to that, you know, sewage line.
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<br />REDDING: Yeah, great question, we have consulted and have an engineer on board, Mark Grant,
<br />and he has looked at our uses, and with a restaurant is obviously the most water need, so the worst
<br />case scenario with the, we would only allow one restaurant in each building. We’ve done the
<br />calculations on the sewer and water usage per day for that. So we can comply with the regulations
<br />with an onsite septic system. We have actually already done the engineering on that, and have that
<br />figured out and it does work.
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<br />KAHOLO: Okay, thank you.
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<br />UNGER: You make reference to Tokyu, Tokyu Corporation, in regard to the need, possibly if you
<br />need extra water, that they’ve agreed to give you more water units. What is your, who are they and
<br />what’s your relationship with them?
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<br />HARRIS: Tokyu Corporation is, you know, the owner of Mauna Lani Resort, and they hold the
<br />water allocations. And we have, if you read the water department, we have an allocation from
<br />Tokyu and the Water Department, but we do need more from Tokyu, so we are working on that,
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