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But, nevertheless, this area is kind of close to that, you know, close to that facility. There was a
<br />packing plant, you know, on the property, and in what—and Suisan at that time was going to
<br />utilize that packing plant for its own operation. We had an archaeological study done just to see
<br />what's on the ground, and basically, they said that yes, you had a lot of these abandoned—you
<br />know, remnants of these abandoned structures, and they found like an axle gear. So, they had to
<br />figure out like, you know, what's this axel gear, but it turned out that Suisan had relocated some
<br />of their truck parts, you know from their operation near the airport so they put `em over there so,
<br />you know, that was what it was. So, the long and short of it relative to the archaeological
<br />standpoint, there really was nothing on the ground, and the State Historic Preservation Division
<br />essentially concluded, you know, made that same conclusion.
<br />But, because of the potential, because this site was going to be used for a potable well, what the
<br />owners did was to commission in Phase 1 an environmental study, and that's included as part of
<br />your, the exhibit we had submitted. And, essentially, the Phase 1 environmental study shows
<br />that there really was nothing, you know, to be concerned about, and if there were then like in the
<br />situation where the former Canec was, they had to go through Phase 2, which was you know
<br />actual removal and remediation you know of that site. So, in this case here, the environmental
<br />consultant concluded there was no need for remediation on the site.
<br />That's pretty much it. I'd like to kind of turn it over to Tom Nance. Tom Nance is president and
<br />owner of Tom Nance Water Engineering, and they've done a lot of—he's a, he's a hydrologist,
<br />and he's done a lot of studies, you know, on this island and actually like within the whole State.
<br />So, he can speak more directly to the issue of the source and also like the quality and related
<br />information. Tom?
<br />NANCE: I'm Tom Nance, consultant from Honolulu offices, 560 North Nimitz Highway,
<br />Suite 213.
<br />The design of the well is based essentially entirely on the result of the drilling program that was
<br />initiated through Don Thomas and others at the University of Hawaii Hilo, and relatively
<br />nearby, the first of the wells they drilled was in the early nineties, '93, `94, called KP -1. And,
<br />it's important for you to kind of picture the stratigraphy you go through to the zone that we will
<br />hopefully be getting the fresh water from.
<br />Because we start out in a formation which has alluvium material and coral material and at a
<br />couple hundred feet, you get into the Mauna Loa lavas. And, you keep drilling down through the
<br />Mauna Loa lavas, at that well, about a thousand feet or at nine hundred some odd feet, and what
<br />you run into is a soil and saprolite layer which is the weathered surface of the Mauna Kea lavas
<br />which lie beneath in this location, the Mauna Loa lavas above. That hundred foot saprolite layer
<br />is essentially impermeable, and so what you have below that layer is fresh groundwater in the
<br />Mauna Kea lavas. And, that was the result of that KP -1 well, and we're hoping to be able to
<br />achieve that same result in the well onsite. It's relatively close -by.
<br />The Water Commission designations of aquifer systems is really two-dimensional. It doesn't
<br />look at the third dimension. So, when we put in an application, they'll classify it as being in the
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