Report Title:

GO Bonds; Kauai CIP

 

Description:

Appropriates $1,630,000 for CIP projects on Kauai for solid waste facilities, Lihue sewer system, Hanapepe stadium sports complex, drainage master plan, and new Kapaa fire station.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2654

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and making an appropriation for the county of kauai capital improvement projects.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $1,630,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2002-2003 for the purpose of the following projects for the county of Kauai.

FY 2002-03

A. SOLD WASTE FACILITIES $ 480,000

(Plans New Disposal Facility $460,000) (matching)

(Land Acquisition Auto Recycle Center $500,000)

Phase II of the Kekaha landfill opened for operation on October 8, 1993, with a design capacity to take an approximate 536,000 tons of waste. A vertical expansion within the existing landfill footprint is expected to add another four to five year capacity to the landfill, assuming normal waste stream conditions. Although the county of Kauai is actively engaged in waste diversion efforts such as recycling, the normal waste stream consists of approximately 77,000 solid waste tons a year. A natural disaster would create abnormal waste stream conditions. Approximately 221,000 tons (forty per cent of the capacity) of Hurricane Iniki debris was landfilled at phase II during four years following the disaster. Landfilling is the primary means of solid waste disposal of Kauai. With the implementation of Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, costs and liabilities associated with landfilling have escalated significantly (approximately $118 per ton of waste landfilled). Future waste disposal capacity must be developed to meet the solid waste disposal need of the county of Kauai. Funding is required for: planning studies, land acquisition, design and permitting, and construction to have a future landfill capacity on-line when the Kekaha landfill phase II reaches capacity. Planning studies include a site survey, a feasibility study, and the required environmental assessments and impact statement. The county has initiated an island-wide site survey and feasibility study for a sanitary landfill, estimated cost of $50,000. Once legislative approvals are received, the planning studies may be completed with the land acquisition, design and permitting, and construction to follow.

FY 2002-03

B. Lihue Sewer System $ 500,000

(Construction effluent disposal/ (matching)

anaerobic digester $1,000,000)

Present disposal of the effluent from the treatment plant is via irrigation of the Kauai Lagoons golf course pursuant to an agreement to terminate in 2003. While an extension of the agreement is being negotiated, the volume to be accepted by Kauai Lagoons will be only 1.5 mgd. As the capacity of the wastewater treatment plant is 2.5 mgd, at least 1.0 mgd must be disposed of by other means. Furthermore, the department of health, in addition to newly adopted stringent effluent reuse guidelines, requires a fall back effluent disposal system, should the Kauai Lagoons not comply with the agreement. The only viable alternate means of disposal is injection wells. The effluent disposal system is presently being designed. With the completion of the Lihue wastewater treatment plant in 1996, collector sewer lines will need to be installed in existing residential and commercial areas not presently receiving sewer service. The Lihue system, like most of the other wastewater systems, needs to re-evaluate its facilities plan and ideally revise it in conjunction with the updating of the county’s general plan. A major portion of the update is related to evaluation of effluent disposal alternatives. The expected increase in population in the Lihue district will necessitate the eventual increase of the capacity of the Lihue wastewater treatment plant to its ultimate capacity. Planning will need to commence with construction early next century.

FY 2002-03

C. Hanapepe Stadium Sports Complex $ 250,000

(Relocation of little league field, parking, (matching)

Irrigation for soccer field $500,000)

The Hanapepe Stadium Sports Complex is comprised of fourteen acres and serves as a regional sports facility for west Kauai. Adults, high schools, and youth organizations utilize the various sports fields in this complex. Recently six acres of the sports complex was cleared of overgrowth and grassed. The proposed improvements called for in the next six years will complete the implementation of the sports master plan.

FY 2002-03

D. Drainage Master Plan $ 150,000

(Kapaa/Wailua Area $300,000) (matching)

The county's comprehensive zoning ordinance requires the development of a detailed drainage master plan to supplement the general plan. With the completion of the master plan, a sound capital improvement program can be formulated. Also, the master plan will be useful for various agencies include boundaries of watersheds on hundred acres or larger, stream capacities, limitations on existing channel capacities, proposed channel modifications, and new drainage facilities and appurtenances. The first step to prepare and develop ortho-photo maps for the urban areas of Kauai has been completed. The second step is to develop a drainage design manual to replace the storm drainage standards in use today.

FY 2002-03

E. New Kapaa Fire Station ($500,000) $ 250,000

Kapaa fire station's response area is from the Kauai community correctional center to west of the Moloaa stream. The Kapaa district is much too large and densely populated for one station, especially with the remoteness and growth of the Wailua homesteads area. At times, it is the busiest station on the island, in the whole State of Hawaii.

A viable location for a new Kapaa fire station is on the higher bluffs of Kawaihau road area near the Mahelona hospital and close to Kapaa high school which is a designated disaster shelter. This area is owned by the Hawaii health services corporation. Another consideration for a new location is on the high bluffs near the new Kapaa middle school. Both of these locations provide for a downhill run to Kapaa town (quick response), quicker and better response to upper Kawaihau and the Kapahi area. It is also a tremendous insurability benefit for the Anahola community because it is within the five-mile radius requirement of the Hawaii insurance bureau.

SECTION 2. The sums appropriated for the respective capital projects set forth in section 1 shall be expended by the county of Kauai for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

INTRODUCED BY:

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