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Paradise Lost

The photo is from a bathroom where the sewer line backed up…It took seven hours to clean and this situation is happening daily in Honolulu…I have been talking about rebuilding our infrastructure, particularly our sewer system for the past five years...we need to do the renovations and expansion of Honolulu’s system NOW…The City and County of Honolulu estimated the $650 million job to rebuild and renovate (2018 cost projection) will add capacity from Nui Valley to Pauoa....our system is on 1965 standards while we have a 2019 population, in addition, we need to get people off the dime and upgrade from cesspools to septic tanks because these antiquated systems are leeching into our oceans and aquifers…the bottom line is we are destroying everything that makes Hawaii so beautiful; our ocean, beaches, reefs, and land…Ten years from now if we don’t do anything...we will be a wasteland…I believe it’s that serious, but is anyone listening...