STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3556

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.C.R. No. 120
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.C.R. No. 120, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
     A TASK FORCE TO CREATE A MASTER PLAN FOR FLOOD MITIGATION
     FOR WAIMANALO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the establishment
of a task force to create a master plan for water quality and
flood mitigation for Waimanalo.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of
Agriculture.

     Your Committee finds that the Kailua reservoir, the Kahawai
stream, and other bodies of water in the Waimanalo area have
caused serious damage to private property in the past and
threaten to cause further damage to property and possible loss of
life in the future.  The pollution resulting from this periodic
flooding combined with continuous agricultural and urban runoff
has had serious negative consequences on water quality and water
ecology not only in the freshwater streams of Waimanalo but also
for the whole marine ecology of Waimanalo Bay.

     The 1996-1998 Water Body Assessment conducted by the
Department of Health's Environmental Planning Office identified
Waimanalo stream as suffering from "severe impairment" of water

 
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quality as one of Hawaii's four most seriously polluted bodies of
water.

     Your Committee believes that the safety of our citizens and
the protection of their property, as well as the purity and
natural ecology of our waters are important and that a water
quality and flood mitigation master plan for the Waimanalo area
is necessary.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and
purpose of H.C.R. No. 120, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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