11-05-2024, 01:02 AM
(11-05-2024, 12:25 AM)kalianna Wrote: More high falutinʻ ideas from someone that doesnʻt live here. I highly doubt that a buried sanitary sewer system is inevitable. More like unfeasible. Or impossible. And please correct me if Iʻm wrong, but as far as I know we have no need for a storm drain system. Complain as you will about everything thatʻs wrong in HPP, but flooding is not one of our problems.
That's right, I don't live in HPP. But I do live in Hawaiian Acres, a subdivision with similar issues on a much smaller scale.
As for my "high falutin' ideas," when my husband and I moved here and purchased our 3 side by side lots in the Acres in the late 1980's, there was an already built small home - all fully permitted and 2 years old that was built on the "middle" property. We then went ahead and built our main home further back on that same "middle" property and now use the original home for guests.
When we were building our main home, and the contractor was discussing with us the need to make a second cesspool for the new home, we asked about a septic system instead. He laughed at us like we were "mainland idiots." We told him that we understood the cesspool was legal and all that, but our concern was 25 - 50 years from then (remember, this was in 1988) what will be the requirements then?
In between him laughing at us he sputtered out "cesspool always be the way" here in Hawaii! Never nothing more!
We recently started looking into the feasibility of a septic tank system in the last few months and the general consensus - both by the contractors we have talked to as well as the County Permit office is "why do that now?" "You got to 2050!"
So yes, I am sure the future will always be as it is today!