TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[MarkP]

There are a dozen telescopes already up there. Why is this the first time I am bearing about concerns with wastewater and the aquifer? Because this is all about making trouble, not about the aquifer which is in no more threat from the telescopes than it is from a similar number of any of the home cesspools on the mountain's lower flanks. You know, the ones many of the "protectors" cheerfully dump their waste into daily. The ones thousands of feet closer to the water table. The ones in areas that get 10 times as much rain to flush the contents into the aquifer. The ones that are not zero waste facilities.