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increased nutrient input at the site of the Beach Club. The marine water samples, 1996, 2001 and
<br />2015, “water quality was examined in the two anchialine pools as well as in the ocean - - -
<br />demonstrate that there is a considerable efflux of groundwater entering the ocean fronting the
<br />project site. This groundwater signature is evidence at distances in excess of 500m from the
<br />shoreline and is the primary reason why several quality parameters do not meet the Hawai‘i State
<br />Department of Health regional water quality standards.” “In summary, it appears that many
<br />parameters are out of compliance in the marine waters fronting ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay and this has
<br />occurred for many years.” “Examination of marine water samples from any coastal areas with
<br />little or no hinterland development (South Kohala, North Kona, South Kona, \[Lana‘i\], etc.) reveals
<br />that often the waters do not meet the state \[water quality\] standards for both open coastal waters as
<br />well as the West Hawai‘i regional standards. As noted \[above\], groundwater inputs may easily
<br />account for the lack of compliance.” “The water quality standards represent human criteria
<br />imposed on a natural system.” Lava Lava Beach Club transect has noted numerous
<br />noncompliance in two surveys. “\[These\] data suggests that there is a greater efflux of
<br />groundwater fronting the Lava Lava Beach Club project site than is occurring offshore of the
<br />Waikoloa fishponds to the north.” Noted in conclusion on Page 15, the Marine Environmental
<br />Assessment 2015, “The project may have an impact on groundwater as a result of percolation of
<br />excess irrigation water from both potable irrigation and brackish irrigation sources.” Impacts to
<br />the marine environment is considered from the activities on land, delivery of materials, freshwater,
<br />sediments, nutrients, and potential toxic materials, to the ocean through infiltration to
<br />groundwater, surface runoff and wind transport. The lack of compliance should be seriously
<br />considered.
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<br />And I ask you to consider to make your decision based on the health and safety of the public. We
<br />need to protect all our natural and cultural resources for the next generation. Mahalo.
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<br />KEAKEALANI: Greetings to you all. My name is Ku‘ulei Keakealani, and I live in Waimea in a
<br />particular section called Lihue, Waimea. But I must, and could not not, acknowledge my
<br />homelands of Pu‘uanahulu, North Kona. ‘Anaeho‘omalu actually boundaries my ancestral
<br />homelands. ‘Anaeho‘omalu is the northern boundary that comes right up to Pu‘uanahulu, which
<br />would be the south boundary. It was referenced a little earlier; I come before you as a Parker
<br />Ranch child. I was one of those children in the 70’s, who was I would say beyond privileged,
<br />blessed, to have access into ‘Anaeho‘omalu, as dad was a Parker Ranch cowboy. So basically,
<br />really I think I ask you to perhaps look at me as you would look to ‘Anaeho‘omalu. Dad assured
<br />that he fed us from that very ocean. So I am essentially here because of place, ‘Anaeho‘omalu,
<br />Kīholo, Pu‘uanahulu, Waimea, Ka‘ū at one point; we lived in Kapapala, trying to be a true
<br />reflection of place and to perhaps be the voice. I pulled on the side of the road this morning,
<br />destined for Kona Civic Center, and I was compelled to pull on the side of the road. So in
<br />‘Anaeho‘omalu before we got to the boundary, I stopped, and I picked up a passenger. As odd
<br />perhaps as this may seem to folks, that’s okay, I’m okay with being a little odd, I picked up this
<br />pōhaku. I want to encourage you a site visit, if none of you have been at the site. And not that I
<br />want to invite myself, but I would love to walk along your side in this very place that we are
<br />looking at right now on the map or 700-page documents and then some perhaps that you need to
<br />read through. But this rock for me represents accountability. My accountability perhaps is this
<br />very rock. Your accountability I think is encased in it as well. And I think that’s my voice today
<br />to, for all of us to be in a healthy space to hold each other accountable. Capacity, threshold, all of
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