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Yahoo! Mail - hawaiicountycouncil(ayahoo.com Page 1 of 2 <br /> MA[L Print-Close Window <br /> :r:7.5. _ <br /> From: `Council Testimony" <counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us> <br /> To: hawaiicountycouncil@yahoo.com <br /> Subject: FW: SUPPORTING BILL 151 and JOINT ACTION PLAN <br /> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:59:46 -1000 <br /> From: rivaut@netscape.com [mailto:rivaut@netscape.com] <br /> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:28 AM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Ce: Hoffmann, Pete; Pilago, K. Angel; Jacobson, Bob; Ford, Brenda <br /> Subject: SUPPORTING BILL 151 and JOINT ACTION PLAN <br /> Netscape._ Just the Net You Need. <br /> Forwarded Message <br /> From: rivaut@netscape.com <br /> To: "Me" <rivaut@netscape.com> <br /> Subject: SUPPORTING BILL 151 and JOINT ACTION PLAN <br /> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 03:24:59 -1000 <br /> . <br /> HTML Attachment <br /> Dear Chairman Hoffmann and County Council Members, <br /> Please support Bi11151 and take a first step to providing proteclion for our citizens from flood hazards. <br /> Simply passing Bill 51 with bare rrrrrimum standards while caling for scleniific studies is NOT ENOUGH. <br /> Consider this example. <br /> Thinly years ago, in 1977, the United States Dept. of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service Honolulu, <br /> in cooperation with the County of Hawau, the Kona Soil and Water Conservation District <br /> and the Dept. of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii, <br /> prepared the "NORTH and SOUTH KONA FLOOD ANALYSES: BASIC TECHNICAL DATA FOR FLOOD <br /> PRONE AREAS. <br /> These reports identified watercourses causing flood darrrage, <br /> established elevation~ischarge relationships for each watercourse for 10, 50, 100 and 500 yr. storm events, <br /> delineated flood hazard areas for each watercourse for 100 and 500 year events on topographical Flood Hazard <br /> Maps, <br /> and presented RECOMMENDATIONS for alleviating flood damage then, in 1977, and in the future. <br /> NOW is that future, THIRTY YEARS LATER. <br /> What HAS happened? <br /> For example, on Page 13 of the South Kona Report some of the recommendations included structural and non- <br /> structuralconsiderations, Most of the recommendations were NOT FOLLOWED, including <br /> recommendations to implement land use zoning policy to restrict future devebpment in ide ti d2fl~od plains, <br /> Comm. Na <br /> Ref. To:P bt/t <br /> Rof. Dore 2 Oi <br /> <br /> http://us.f588.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?box=lnbox&MsgId=2383 260 _ _ /6/2007 <br /> <br />