2018-04-25 EMC Agenda and Director's Informational Report

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4. Information requested at previous meeting: • How high above sea level are the ponds at Kealakehe? Per the site drawings, they are 56 feet in elevation from the top of the lagoon to sea level. • Can someone from Planning brief the EMC on sea level rise? The Planning Department will do the presentation at the EMC’s June 27, 2018, meeting. • Provide an update on the salt intrusion problem in Kona. Awaiting response from WWD. • Provide specifics on how DEM will be achieving the 90% reduction in nitrogen and phosphorous in the R-1 discharge. This is in the preliminary design phase. Once Brown and Caldwell get into detail design, we can provide the design parameters. • Provide figures on how many vehicles DEM has towed over the last 10 years. We are compiling the data and will provide. • Contact Neil Mukai of Clean Water Branch in Kona about testing the discharge former Commissioner Fear was concerned about. Pending. • Provide update on the options for the unsewered areas in the Keauhou regional study. Awaiting input from the Planning Department. SOLID WASTE DIVISION PROJECTS AND UPDATES 1. OPERATIONS A. COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSING (CDL) TRAINING: • One additional Solid Waste Facility Attendant in the Hilo baseyard qualified to begin temporary assignment as an Equipment Operator III. • Two additional employees have started the training process which will allow them to be temporarily assigned to Equipment Operator III work. B. WEST HAWAI‘I SANITARY LANDFILL: • The contractor has continued to perform repair work for the shop building. • SWD is discussing options with Waste Management Hawaiʻi for increasing the overall capacity of the WHSL. These changes have the potential to increase the life of the WHSL by as much as 100 years. C. EQUIPMENT • The SWD put into service new trailers, roll-off trucks, and a grapple truck. 2. ADMINISTRATION The new Abandoned Vehicle Coordinator began work on April 2, 2018. 3. SOLID WASTE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS • The Kealakehe Scrap Metal Facility Remediation Project is currently in progress. The contractor began hauling materials from Kealakehe to the West Hawaiʻi Sanitary Landfill over the past few weeks.