HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-09-28 EMC testimony (09-20) Warren, JeromeJerry Warren
P.O. Box 951
Naalehu HI 96772
Ph. 808/929-8192
Testimony regarding EMC Agenda: Naalehu/Pahala LCC closure update
September 2022 EMC Meeting
Dear Environmental Management Commission Chair and Commissioners:
The Naalehu sewer meeting was well attended. The Community Center
and the ballpark parking lot were full. However, the major two-lane access road
is still locked off by a makeshift fence.
This barricade was constructed a long time ago by a disgruntled property
owner after the county disconnected him from their sewer line. Nobody will tear
down that fence.
Several county vehicles were in the parking lot that night, but none of those
salaried officials work on emergency access, public access, or public safety. It’s
nobody’s job.
At the gang-cesspool meeting the possibility of a wastewater package plant
for the plantation subdivision was finally revealed, but nobody said where the
discharge water will go. Now they have a bigger can to kick down the road – the
package plant.
Emergency vehicles need to get in and out of the Naalehu ballpark, and the
treated water needs to come out of the package plant, too. Nobody has these
solutions.
Sadly, Mayor Kim’s 2004 plan for Ka’u has disappeared. Nobody can find
his original promise to us homeowners.
All of these nobodys stick together. That, they can do.
Mayor Roth: Please tear down the makeshift fence at the Naalehu ballpark
and clubhouse – open the road. It’s the least you can do.
Jerry Warren
Naalehu