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Subject: Testimony for CEM meeting Dec. 4 12:30 P.M.
From :Mike Smith 12-3-07
P.O. Box 7001
Ocean View, 96737
Testimony For the Committee On Environmental Management
Meeting on December 4, 2007
12:30 P.M.
Addressing comm. 812 & 707
If you add up the few expenditures listed in the Ocean View Transfer Station EIS it comes to roughly
$2.5 million. That's for highway striping turn in up grade, and acquisition of property. That leaves
$600,000 for staking, clearing, grading, drainage improvements and the SWEPPP (a drainage plan),
paving entry road, paving service roads, and site area, striping site, structures and there plans, water tank
and pump house, fire fighting equipment, two disposal chutes, landscaping, new equipment and all the
labor. It looks more like it will cost $6-8 million or more. Not the $3.1 million now being deceptively
touted. Why is it that no accurate budget is offered at the beginning of this project? Knowing the real
cost of this project and its affordable size could have been debated long ago at council meetings saving
the county time and money now being wasted on a drawn out process. To this day the DEM is unclear
about any cost and still can not come up with an itemized budget.
There is still no sound reasoning explaining the assumption that having a closer transfer station will stop
illegal dumping. However there are existing examples that this is simply not true. Such as the Hookena
Water station on Highway 11 just 1.6 miles from Waiea station, always has uncontrolled dumped trash.
At the Keoni PoKo water station the gate was ripped off and is a constant illegal dump site close to the
Pahoa transfer station. Is using a simple unfounded assumption really grounds for the instillation of an
$8 million dollar dumping station that threatens the peace, quite and health of part of a community for
the betterment of the whole, really the best way to go?
Have other less expensive options really been looked into for recycling other then the current model
being offered by the DEM with there run down existing infrastructure in need of millions of
dollars more for up grading. I believe the endeavor of keeping the transfer station model for recycling
will never achieve a worthy amount of collection to reduce land fills. Only when people are given
conveanent options and you make it as easy as possible will large numbers of people alter there lives to
separate there trash and return it.
Is a new multi- million dollar place to dump your trash really necessary? We already have a place to
take our used motor oil and Hi Five redemption. After all if the county is using existing stations for
recycling as per Jacobson's 0 waste plans than how often does one really need to go to one of these
recycling Stations anyway? Not nearly as often as one would dispose of non -recyclables. Waiohinu is
being up graded and soon to have more enhancements. Isn't this close enough to go to recycle once a
month or even less often?
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12/4/2007
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Democracy is being denied by Bob Jacobson Who has been asked on at least three occasions in public
and in testimony given to county council, asking to show proof of his statements of
overwhelming support, which he has not been able to do. The Committee for
an Appropriate Transfer Station has proof of overwhelming opposition to a
site in the proposed area.
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