Transcript Piiholo South Well Presentation Maui County Council Water Resource Committee September 7, 2010 When you are thirsty, it is too late to think about digging a.

Piiholo South Well
Presentation
Maui County Council Water
Resource Committee
September 7, 2010
When you are thirsty, it is too late to think
about digging a well. ~Japanese Proverb
1994
Upcountry Water Meter Priority
List initiated after the 1977 Kula
List is invalidated by the courts.
2005
Piiholo South, 325 acres
adjacent to Makawao,
purchased by a hui of 25
individuals, couples, and
families.
2007
Maui County enacts “Show
Me the Water” law.
2007-2008
Working with DWS, Maui
Pine drills Piiholo North well.
Well underperforms and DWS
turns it down.
2008
Piiholo South LLC drills Piiholo
South well to Maui County
standards. The well is the most
productive well in Upcountry
history.
2008
1312 Residents on the
Upcountry Water Meter List.
Applicant #1 waiting since
October 8, 1996.
2010
 Water Meter List frozen since 2005.
 DWS not acting.
 Council refers resolution to Committee urging mayor
to negotiate a de facto taking of the Piiholo South Well.
 The resolution is not realistic. Piiholo South will not
negotiate a taking of its property.
 However, the resolution succeeds in bringing the
question, What are we going to do? to a head.
 That’s why we’re all here today.
September, 2010
 An unprecedented opportunity for decisive
action to swiftly and dramatically reduce
the Upcountry Water Meter List.
 Three parties: The executive branch, the
legislative branch, and the owner.
 Acting together, on behalf of the people of
Maui, we can bring an end to sixteen years
of failure to find a working solution.
Well Specifications
 Elevation: 1694.93 feet
 Depth of Well: 1822 feet
 Hole Diameter: 20 inches
 Casing Diameter: 14 inches
 Casing Length: 1768 feet
 Perforated Casing Length: 54 feet
 Cement Grout: 1560 feet
 Depth to Water: 1685.6 feet
Pump Test
 Pumping at 1200 gallons per minute, equivalent to
1,728,000 gallons per day, the drawdown is 1.65 feet.
 Recovery time after pumping: 17 minutes.
 Chloride measurement stable at 10 mg/L.
 Average water temperature: 66.5 degrees.
 Total water pumped in 96 hours: 6,174,200 gallons.
Average: 1,543,500 gallons per day.
 Mink and Yuen, Engineers
Water Purity
 Running through subterranean formations
and percolating down to the basal aquifer
from slopes miles mauka of us.
 Certified by Pural Water Specialty
Company of Maui and Oahu.
 Piiholo South’s water meets or exceeds EPA
and Department of Health standards and is
drinkable right out of the well.
Piiholo South Well
 1,728,000 gallons of pristine water per day.
 At the water hub of Upcountry, adjacent to
the Po’okela and Maluhia Tanks, and very
near the West Olinda Treatment Facility
and the Piiholo Treatment Facility.
Alternatives for
Piiholo South well
A.
Remain Private
B.
Dedication with Allocation
of Credits
C.
Purchase
Remain Private
Business as usual for Maui
County. No solution or relief for
Upcountry Water Meter List
applicants.
DWS keeps studying the
problem.
Dedication and
Allocation
 Maui County Formula
 Piiholo South retains rights to 75% of 45% of
the well, equivalent to 34% of its production.
 Maui County receives rights to 25% of 45% of
the well PLUS has County jurisdiction over
100% of remaining 55% of the well. A total of
66% of the well’s production.
 320 new meters will be the result Upcountry.
Maui County
purchases the well
1296 meters will be the result
Upcountry.
Four times the number of meters
compared to the Dedication and
Allocation option.
Piiholo South LLC will retain and
pay for approximately 30 of these
1296 meters.
Purchase
“Economic Analysis indicates that the
cost to mitigate decreased drought
period capacity (Upcountry) using
groundwater basal wells…is $7 to 8
million for each 1 million gallon per
day impact.”
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Impacts of Amended Interim Instream Flow Standards on Drought Period Reliable Capacity, Page 1,
Appendix C, Upcountry Water Use and Development Plan, Maui County Department of Water
Supply, July 25, 2009
Cost of the Piiholo South Well
Generating Value for Maui County
 $3.75 million for completed pump and 1.728 million gallon well.
$4.25 million for infrastructure.
$8 million total cost.
 Infrastructure
 Link to the Po’okela Tank.
 Improve flow capacity along a half-mile of Olinda Road from the West
Olinda Treatment Facility serving Upper Kula.
 Build infrastructure for close to a mile along Piiholo Road.
 Build a new 225,000 gallon tank for storage for DWS water en route
from Haiku to Olinda.
 All for the same cost as adding 1 million gallons capacity from a
groundwater basal well.
 However the Piiholo South Well is 72.8% larger than 1 million gallons.
Water System Map
Benefits of Purchase
 Fulfills nearly 50% of the Upcountry Water Meter List. Now.
 Benefits thousands of Upcountry residents and their families.
 Generates more than $8 million in water meter fees to help pay
for the well.
 Over the next ten years adds approximately $400 million of
assessed valuation in homes to property tax rolls, generating
about $2 million per year for Maui County.
 Annual Return on Maui County Investment: 25%.
 Within very few years, the Piiholo South well pays for itself
several times over.
 Creates several thousand people-years of employment for Maui
construction workers and material providers.
Affordable Housing
 A 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom,1800 square foot Upcountry
home can, at present, be built for $300,000.
 Most lots waiting for a meter have been owned and
paid for, for years and years.
 The distribution of nearly 1300 new water meters
Upcountry will make possible the construction of more
affordable homes for Maui families than have been
built in total in many years.
 These homes will be built not all at once and in one
place, but one family at a time, widely distributed, from
Haiku to Ulupalakua.
Summary
 Proven Source.
 Ready to Go.
 At far less expense than the County can
produce it.
 Will pay for itself many times over.
 Relieves Upcountry residents after decades
of frustration.
Objectives and
Action
 At a time when people are losing their homes and
having to move off-island, putting the Piiholo
South Well to work will make it possible for
many others to build their family homes and stay
on island.
 The Piiholo South Well is an economic engine for
Maui that should be harnessed to help get us
back on the road to financial security and
prosperity.
“By water all
things find life.”
Maui County Department of Water Supply