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hearings, and that's really important to us, inquire with the Planning staff about additional public
<br />participation, an opportunity unique to their respective county. And I feel that if we don't get the
<br />opportunity, this will affect us because — I have brought some photos here — with your limit of
<br />125,000, and now raising the limit to 500,000, and you want to say that the permitting right now
<br />is bottleneck and you want to speed it up is the reason. These photos will tell you we need to
<br />slow it down. The infrastructure, the resources, our water, everything is in disarray. In 2011,
<br />this has not been fixed. Kahalu`u Beach for one, it's a main tourist destination. There are 1,500
<br />people per day going to the beach. It's 303(4) Impaired. There is a cesspool from Queen
<br />Kalama to Kahalu`u Beach. Two million gallons per day goes into the ocean. And you want to
<br />add all, not fix. This is wrong. So we need input even on the smallest development going in the
<br />SMA. And if your limit is 500,000 trying to reach that, it should be lowered, it should be lower
<br />than 125[, 000]. There's pictures I wanted to show you. [Ms. McMichael approached the
<br />Leeward Commissioners and showed them her collage of photographs.]
<br />I also learned one real factor into this matter, too, is that they always said that the shoreline
<br />wasn't moving very much, but when this cesspool broke, it showed that it moved 80 feet within
<br />20 years. And that says a lot. Thank you.
<br />UNGER: Great. Thank you. Mark Van Pernis?
<br />HENKEL: Excuse me, Vice Chair Unger, we have a question from this side for Ms. McMichael.
<br />CLARKSON: Yes, since I was not able to see the photo that was shown to the Leeward
<br />Commissioners, could the testifier please describe briefly what's in the photo? Or could
<br />somebody from the staff hold it up to the video camera so we can see it? Thank you.
<br />MCMICHAEL: I have to explain first. Like the Kahalu`u shaft for one thing, it's the water at
<br />Kahalu`u Beach, it's high in salinity. And the reason is because of the water pumps. And last
<br />year I asked about the water pumps, and they said that there were two water pumps that broke
<br />and they could not tell me how long. I asked them, like one year, two years, they couldn't tell
<br />me. And then the other two broke in November. But this year they are telling us they broke this
<br />year. The salinity count proves here that it was broken many, many years ago. And it shows that
<br />in 1992 it started to climb all the way to 2016. And it's the ETA maximum level, it's way
<br />below. They have risen so high. It's not being fixed. There's constant fecal matters at Kahalu`u
<br />Beach. Constantly, they are posting bacteria signs, and it says swim at your own risk. I'm sorry
<br />but my kids, my grandkids, we don't go to the beach anymore. And to put people in there,
<br />snorkeling, and you have raw material going in there, it's pathetic. We have to fix it. I've went
<br />to every department I could, pleading with them, to please put in a sewer. The houses on the
<br />beach on the ocean front, they don't have room for the septic tanks. So, they'll never be fixed.
<br />We are willing to put in money to hook up to the sewer, but they are saying they don't have
<br />money, but yet they have money to put into the rail in Honolulu. The TAT taxes alone, of
<br />millions of dollars, and nothing has gone back to Kahalu`u Beach. It's the most used beach on
<br />this entire island for snorkeling. There are 75 public parking, 1,500 people per day. When this
<br />sewer broke
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