HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-03-12 PL-SMA-2023-000046 Liz M Opposition Testimony From: Liz M
To: WPCtestimony
Subject: Save Hawaii
Date: Tuesday, March 12,2024 9:45:42 PM
Aloha,
Please deny the Shoreline Management Area/SMA permit extension for Black Sands Beach
LLC at Punalu'u". Mahalo for your time! BE SURE to TELL Your Hawaii Island Friends &
give 'em the info!!!! Swamp their inbox! :) Your email can be longer than the short one if you
want and include any of these points: Punalu`u means diving springs. Wai ola, water is life.
Wai from the mauka aquifers feeds the ponds at Punalu`u . The fish are plentiful in the
brackish water of Punalu`u bay. Home to the threatened Honu, Green Sea Turtle who loves to
bask on the warn sand. Blanket statement for use in written testimony to help save this beach:
use what you wish in your testimony, Thank you! The daily impact to the environment of
hundreds of people traversing on the tiny beach, taking sand and iliili pebbles is inevitable, if
this development is approved. A corporation will be encroaching upon the fragile and pristine
ecosystem of Punalu`u Bay and Black Sand beach and Ninole Cove. This would be very
detrimental to the indigenous and endemic animal habitats , native flora and fauna and the
freshwater springs that is the life for us all. The native Loulu Palm tree, native hawaiian
poppy, Pua Kala and the Native cotton plant Ma`o important to the fauna ecosystem there.
Endangered species live here including the `Ope`apea the native Hawaiian Hoary bat, the
Honu`ea Hawksbill Turtle who lay their eggs and build nests on the sand, the `ilioholoikauaua
monk seal, the native damselfly, the Koloa duck,Nene the Hawaiian goose , `auku`u, the Pueo
native Hawaiian Owl, the Io native hawaiian hawk and many rare varieties of limu, ko`ele,
opihi. The Nai`a spinner dolphin,porpoise, Kohola Humpback whale, Sperm whale, various
species of Mano shark and pilot whales are a few of the sea creatures that inhabit the waters in
and around Punalu`u and Ninole bays. Do not approve the SMA permit to allow these new
developers to use and desecrate the wahi kapu of Punalu`u.
Mahalo,
Liz