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[Note: Item Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were consolidated for testimony. These items were continued to <br />the Commission's December 6, 2018 meeting at the request of the Applicant.] <br />CLARKSON: We have no other items on the agenda today, but we do have the opportunity to <br />take testimony from anyone who arrived here today to testify on the matter of Piilani Partners <br />rezone application. Will—there will be no discussion, no action. We will just simply take <br />testimony. So, will Cory Harden and Hanalei Fergerstrom please come forward? We're still <br />going—I've asked Cory if you will come take a seat, and would the audience members allow the <br />courtesy of this person to testify, and quiet. Excuse me? [To the audience members.] <br />So, you may not have known that this item was continued due to a medical emergency. <br />HALL: I told her. <br />CLARKSON: Oh, you did. Okay. So, we're giving you the opportunity to testify but that's all <br />that will happen. <br />HARDEN: That's fine, yeah. <br />CLARKSON: I strongly also urge you to return again next month when we will discuss this in <br />full and take some action. <br />HARDEN: Yeah. <br />CLARKSON: Raise your right hand, please. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this <br />matter before the Planning Commission? <br />HARDEN: Yes. <br />CLARKSON: Please introduce yourself and proceed. <br />HARDEN: Okay. Cory Harden speaking for Sierra Club Moku Loa Group. Thank you for your <br />volunteer service, kind of a long day. We are opposing the Piilani Partners project because of <br />concerns that I raised at your last meeting, and I got four concerns today. <br />One is possible contamination of the aquifer by salt water. At your August 13th meeting, Tom <br />Nance, the hydrologist for Piilani Partners said they'll drill in such a way that the salt water <br />above the aquifer doesn't come in, and he said we won't take it too deep so we don't pull salt <br />water from below. Mr. Nance said the well design is based on a drilling program done by Don <br />Thomas and others at UH Hilo. An article that Don Thomas wrote about that program says it has <br />not yet been possible to obtain samples of the freshwater zone without contamination from the <br />deep saline fluids, and I thought well, if contamination is a problem when you're getting <br />samples, what's going to happen when you drill a well. I'm not a scientist, but that's a question. <br />State Office of Planning says the aquifer is currently used as a drinking water source, fresh, <br />irreplaceable, and highly vulnerable to contamination. There is no written hydrologist report to <br />EXHIBIT G <br />2 <br />