The Puna Watering Holes?

[randomq]

Agree 100% Mella, if there's a need, let's deal with it. Always glad that people bathe. Just not in and near our drinking water, of course!

[Chunkster]

Mella's suggestion has merit, but we all know what would happen. The shower fixtures and water heater would quickly be either vandalized or stolen. If the county somehow managed to build something vandal proof (unlikely, based on past experience), the facility would become filthy and unsanitary. As someone else has said here on Punaweb, "We can't have nice things."

[jrw]

[quote]Originally posted by mella l

Would it cost so much to set a shower stall next to the water stations and make it a little more sanitary while providing a service to those who need to shower? Heck you could even throw in a solar water heater on the structure for warm water availability. It could be a portable shower even just something to help keep things cleaner.

mella l
Art and Science
bytheSEA
[/quote Hate to be negative but how clean do you really think the shower would stay . Would not be long before someone stole the solar water heater.

[MarkP]

My first thought is that the showers would make things worse. With such facilities you would have people camping overnight and that would reduce safety, cleanliness, and general usability as far as the spigots goes. It would change the character of the place completely. Households nearby who can tolerate people stopping in to get water would probably not tolerate what would essentially be a campground. Cleanliness is a top priority for a drinking water station.

[loffelkopffl]

they have bathrooms at kurtistown park why would they be pissing at the spigots??

[rrlovesbi]

I've been searching online for a water quality report for the "Kurtistown Ball Park" spigots, which the County refers to them as. The map on this linked page only has Mountain View or Pahoa reports.
https://www.hawaiidws.org/waterquality/ . Are the Kurtistown Spigots on the same pipeline as Mountain View? We like the taste of the Kurtistown water for drinking but still have catchment with UV and 5 micron filter before UV as well as a reverse osmosis filter system in the kitchen mostly for cooking water. Because the reverse Osmosis removes almost all minerals the water is flat tasting.

Mahalo
Robert in Mountain View

[Mimosa]

Mtn View across P.O. for best tasting .
We take bleach with us and totally clean the spigot each and every time when filling less than 500 gallons at midnight to 4am.
Kurtistown spigots are rather 3rd world ish of late.
The Micronesian clans bathe their daily as an afternoon outing - just like back home on their home islands.
Mrs.Mimosa

[Carey]

RRlovesBL - here is the report (2017) for the Olaa -MtView supply:
https://www.hawaiidws.org/wp-content/upl...2017lo.pdf

for those still wanting a map of the HI CTY spigots, you will find it here (CURRENT AS OF JUNE, 2018):
https://www.hawaiidws.org/wp-content/upl...p-2018.pdf

& the Dept of Water Supply has a lot more things to look at:
https://www.hawaiidws.org

[terracore]

There are public showers on this island that haven't been stolen or vandalized to be inoperable. So it's not a matter of if it's possible, it's just a matter of whether or not the county is going to provide such services outside of beach parks. People are already using the public water spigots to dump their rubbish, bathe, piss, wash their cars, and fulfill their vandalism urges. I don't see that mounting a water spigot 4 feet higher than where they currently are is going to cost a lot of money or change the dynamics of the watering hole.

[rrlovesbi]

Mahalo Carey for the info and link. Will check out Mt. View across from PO.