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found that the Old Mill foundation wasn't sloped correctly to—and, it wasn't properly
<br />constructed to take out the sediment from the storm water.
<br />I've sent all this in, maybe a hundred emails. I've done all the research for you, but this takes the
<br />cake. A letter that says an EA has been triggered. So, therefore, no more decision-making. An
<br />EA comes first. Thank you.
<br />[Clapping in audience.]
<br />ORDENSTEIN: Aloha, my name is David Ordenstein, and I'm a resident of Pepe`ekeo. I reside
<br />on a very unique property, and I just wanted to make sure that I share my mana`o, what I observe
<br />on this property to you.
<br />What makes this property very unique is the property goes directly down to the ocean. I can
<br />walk and put my feet in the water. I'm not on the cliff. I'm in the area that used to be part of the
<br />camp where houses were actually destroyed and just buried under the land. Because I live on the
<br />ocean, I'm able to observe the water seeping through this land and coming to our ocean where
<br />and, and it's full of oil. It's full of all kinds of things that was buried in the ground from the
<br />camp. There's a lot of underground water out there, and it comes down and I observe it every
<br />day. I work very hard on the property, and I know the underground water, how it comes out,
<br />how it just seeps out of that place, and I'm across the street from the plant.
<br />I don't evenI pick, I love `opihi. I eat `opihi, and I don't even pick from that side `cause I
<br />know the stream comes down, the underground water comes down. I go to the bay side which
<br />limits when I can pick because it's so rough out there. Today, would have been a perfect day
<br />like yesterday. But, I fish aholehole, kumu, and all these things, I fear that it will be taken away
<br />from us Hawaiians, us people that use the ocean, eat from the ocean. And, I just feel like there's
<br />no one protecting us from the government side. I feel like, you know, like jobs, you know, jobs
<br />is more important and stuff like that.
<br />But, you know, I'm from Oahu. I saw how so many things were given, and how just the place
<br />has turned. That's why I'm on this island now, and yet I see the same things. Planning
<br />Commissions, yeah, give away, give away, give, give, give, and pretty soon, not going to have
<br />nothing to give. I know it's easy to just sit there and follow rules and regulations, but I just want
<br />to share my mana`o with you. I see underground water everyday coming out from under the
<br />ground, and it affects where I fish, where I take food to eat. I can feel it. I know. I don't know
<br />all the chemicals or whatever, but I know. So, that's all I wanted to share. Thank you.
<br />[Clapping in audience.]
<br />JOHNSON: Good, good morning. My name is Steve Johnson, and I live in Pepe`ekeo between
<br />the power plant and the ocean, a rather rare thing for you today, but David is my neighbor, and
<br />the stuff that was buried in the ground, and the garbage that runs out into the bay is amazing.
<br />The pollution, the stuff that's growing from this pollution that was buried which isn't anything
<br />compared to I imagine what this power plant could put out. There was ten houses there that used
<br />to be there for the plantation workers, and I guess they just bulldozed them all in, and there's
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