HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0377.495 2024-2026From: Elaine Makaio
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2025 3:12 PM
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To: Council Testimony
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Subject: I am in Support of Resolution 234-25
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Aloha mai kakou Hawaii County Council Members,
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I strongly support this resolution.
US Military training at Pohakuloa has already caused serious harm -burning nearly 20,000 acres,
contaminating the land, and threatening endangered species. Beneath this area lies a major aquifer that
supplies fresh water to Hawaii Island, and the military's track record shows they are not equipped to
protect such importance of it's resource we, the People of Moku O Keawe Hawai'i so redundantly rely
upon. There is also a serious concern about depleted uranium left in the soil, which can become
airborne during exercises and has known health risks, especially to when the Easternly and Westernly
winds are blowing over gusts of 50 mph or more to the Waikoloa Communities as well as to the residence
where my'ohana and I have been living for over 7-years and still live on the Humu'ula Ahupua'a
(Humu'ula Kala't'eha Ranch) also known as Mauna Kea Lower Summit of Ranch lands currently under
The Department of Hawaiian Homes Lands.
Pohakuloa is a wahi pana- sacred place with deep cultural and ecological significance. The continued
military use is incompatible with its conservation status and the values of aloha'aina. Please support
this resolution to Kia'i a Pohakuloa wahi pana- Protect Pohakuloa sacred place,'o ka'aina- the land, wai
ola- water is life, and na kanaka a pau o Hawaii net- all of the people Hawai'i.
Mahalo nunui Loa for your support and consideration to this very important Resolution 234-25 for Hawaii
net Future.
Me ke aloha pumehana,
Elton John & Elaine Poipe Kealt'iwahamana SanJose
38-250 Mauna Kea Access Road
Hawai'i o Keawe,
Ko Hawai'i Pae'Aina 96720
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 6329
Hilo, HI 96720
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