Maunawili Community Association

Maunawili Community Association Minutes March 2, 2004

Maunawili Community Association Minutes March 2, 2004

Maunawili Community Association
Regular Meeting: March 2, 2004
Maunawili Valley Neighborhood Park Pavilion

This is an update on key issues affecting Maunawili as covered in last night’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting.
1) The contractor, Goodfellow Brothers Inc. (GBI) is awaiting various permits from the City before they can begin work on the proposed Castle Junction Dirt Dump Site on Kaneohe Ranch/Castle Foundation (KR/CF) land next to Kal Highway (TMK: 4-2-14-1) with a proposed temporary road across Kal Highway from the end of Kapaa Quarry Road. GBI estimates that work could possibly begin April 1 “and is expected to take a week. On April 8, work will begin on the construction of an entrance and truck haul road linking the site to the highway. [GBI] anticipate[s] that this will be completed on April 14; the site will then be ready to receive excavated materials. These materials will be placed at this location until July 6. It will take another week – till about July 13 – for the Kane’ohe Ranch site to be finished, landscaped and closed.” At that time the temporary truck haul road will be removed and the area returned to its pre-construction condition. As it stands now, night work will probably last from April 1 to May 1, 2004. After that, according to GBI, the work will be done on the site during daylight hours and Saturday. This schedule is tentative.
2) GBI now plans to conduct another sound testing sometime within the next week or two. GBI will simulate the worksite noises between 10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. in order to get as accurate reading as possible of the type of work which will be done on the access road and at the dirt dump site.
3) Board of Water Supply Water Main and Fire Hydrant Project for Maunawili (along Maunawili Road beginning at Trinity Christian Church/School, along Maunawili Loop, and continuing along Maunawili Road to Aloha ‘Oe Drive in Maunawili Estates). BWS now intends to begin work sometime in early summer rather than the heretofore April 1, 2004 start-date. The contractor will do a traffic study as required. The contractor anticipates the use of steel plates and keeping one lane open at all times. The question of an emergency access road is still being investigated between MCA, MECA and BWS as this emergency access road was required to be furnished by Luana Hills Golf Course when it was built as stipulated in the Conditional Use Permit.
4) Possible City Landfill at Ameron Kapaa Quarry. The City Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) is now embarked on placing Ameron Quarry on the City’s Facilities Map in order to allow City Budget monies to be allocated for acquisition and development of a City Sanitary Landfill at Ameron Kapaa Quarry Kailua. A City Trash Dump at Ameron Quarry would be receiving some 600 tons per day of City garbage and trash, and some 800 tons per day of H-Power ash, along with City Sewer Plant Sludge. Other technologies and plans (plasma-melter, recycling, etc.) will have little or no impact in reducing these amounts to any City Landfill. The City Council is still required by the Land Use Commission to select a new landfill site by June 1, 2004. Certain actions are being taken to ameliorate the issues of landfill site selection: Councilwoman Barbara Marshall has created a Resolution [04-31] to be placed before the City Council’s Public Works Committee sometime in April; Rod Tam, Chair of the PW Committee plans to have a public informational meeting on Waimanalo Gulch Landfill-Leeward on March 29, and a public informational meeting on Ameron Kapaa Quarry Kailua on March 30, 2004 at the Kailua Linda Ure, Secretary, MCA

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