STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1101

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.R. No. 95

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.R. No. 95 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES, TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON REDUCING THE SEWER AND UTILITY LINE LOAD BY REPAIRING AN ARTERY TO ALLOW TRADITIONAL WATER FLOW TO KALAUHA‘IHA‘I FISHPOND AND MAUNALUA BAY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this resolution is to request that the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Board of Land and Natural Resources, conduct a study on:

 

     (1) Reducing the utility and sewer load by repairing an           artery to allow traditional water flow to the                     Kalauha'iha'i Fishpond and Maunalua Bay;

 

     (2) Reducing the damage to the utilities, sewer, and                   Kalanianaole Highway by returning the traditional water       flow to the Kalauha'iha'i Fishpond and Maunalua Bay.

 

     The Kuli'ou'ou Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board #2, Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center, Livable Hawaii Kai Hui, Pacific Ocean Producers, Hawaii Nearshore Fishermen, Maunalua Hawaiian Civic Club and several concerned individuals testified in support of this resolution. The DOT supported the intent and provided comments.

 

     In the early 1990s, the State's widening of Kalanianaole Highway ruptured the lava tube connecting Kalauha'iha'i Fishpond to the underground artesian source and altered spring flow to the ocean, eventually causing the death of the pond's inhabitants. In 2009 the City and County of Honolulu published a Draft Environmental Assessment that showed a sewer segment was infiltrated by one million gallons of groundwater daily. The City's sewer rehabilitation of Kalanianaole Highway has only slightly reduced the infiltration, and the water has found new pathways to infiltrate the sewer near Paiko Drive.

 

     Not wanting to stall the process due to funding requirements for a study and because of the State's current financial crisis, your committees have amended this resolution by removing the mandatory requirement for a study and asking the DOT and DLNR instead for their support.

 

     Your committees also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 95, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 95, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair

 

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair