HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0364.000 1996-1998464�.
Mr Dominic Yagong
Hawaii County Council
25 Aupuni Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96721
cc: Mayor Steve Yamashiro
May IPP97 ._
Paauilo, Hamakua
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Re: Water Runoff from County Land neighboring our land
We are writing to you regarding the property above our land. The
enclosed map may help to pinpoint our area, which is adjacent to
some of the 4,400 acres of former Hamakua Sugar Company cane
land now owned by the County of Hawaii. As land owners we are
very concerned about damage to the County road and our property,
due the unmanaged runoff. The former sugar land soil conservation
contour terraces and runoff water diversion channels to the existing
gulches have not been maintained by the present owner, which is
the County of Hawaii.
We are very concerned that if the portion of the 4,400 acres directly
above the Manienie Road community were to become a part of the
timber industry, that this would have a devastating effect on the
County road and our property.
We have had this road ruined by the havesting of sugar during rainy
periods (the County road was repaired later by the Hamakua Sugar
Company), and fear that this area above our homes, if covered by
trees will cause unthinkable erosion and runoff problems, far worse
than those we experienced with the sugar plantation. The worst part
is that now the contour ditches have mostly silted up due to lack of
maintenance, and now we are left with a road that is washing away
again. The erosion is forming gullies, creeping closer and closer to our
properties, and we are all very worried and we have had no
response to road maintenance doing repair work.
We are a very concerned group of residents of this road and area.
We would like very much for this area to be pasture. Stanley and
David Dias have tried to lease it for pasture for cattle, and are ready,
willing, and able to do the contouring ditching and anxious to
maintain it up to proper standards. If anything, this could be a
buffer zone between our County road and any possible forest project,
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where we as a group could maintain it, re: contouring ditching, runoff
control.
Concerning the 77.4 acre piece, 4 3 12 6, directly above our
properties and the County road Manienie Road: could you please
spare this area above our property from being put into timber as
part of the 4,400 acres, and please let it be pasture. As there are too
many families affected if our road is already in such poor condition
and our property at risk of turning into gullies. As many of us
commute to work and school, our safety is at risk. Please help us
from letting this happen again! We are hoping that you will accept
our solution.
Sincerely,
Ed rd Quaintance y
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Diana Quaintance
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David Was
P. 0. Box 482
Paauilo, HI 96776
776 1240
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