Champagne Pond - Best solutions?

[Rob Tucker]

Well for the sake of discussion Kapohokine you were the one to bring up the word illegal so I guess it took root in my thinking. Not trying to be argumentative. It may be that almost everyone there is doing something "illegal" though not all. There are families that live there and do not maintain vacation rentals.

The county is notoriously lax in enforcing code. Be it zoning or whatever.

I suspect that keeping people out would help preserve the place. The root question is guess is is the goal to preserve it or use it / exploit it?

About the only asset Hawaii has is it's environment. Lose that and kiss Hawaii goodbye. Do we start to be concerned about water quality before pollution and disease are present or before? Saying the water quality is "average" may be an improvement it may be a deterioration. What was the baseline? Not being argumentative.... just thinking.

One by one the ocean assets are going to be burdened and then over burdened.

It will still come down to are we each part of the problem or part of the solution?

I will guess that you are sincere but I also hear similar rationalizations that I hear in other parts of Puna when it comes to occupying that patch of gray between black and white.