08-06-2008, 07:02 AM
The biggest problems that I see in Puna are public health and safety issues. No one is willing to look into that distant future. Most politicians and planners won't look beyond 20 years. I think that a 50-100 year plan is the proper thinking.
The first is the transportation issue. Puna needs a secondary road system. Funneling all of the traffic onto belt road and 130 is not sustainable.
The second is wastewater management. The new septic tank systems are no better than the cess pools. Outhouses are safer. Composting toilets are safer.
A properly designed leachfield is probably the most realistic. Effluent from septic tanks needs to be distributed into shallow fields of soil that does not percolate too fast for the proper anaerobic (sp) processes to occur.
I shall now step down from the soapbox,
Dan
The first is the transportation issue. Puna needs a secondary road system. Funneling all of the traffic onto belt road and 130 is not sustainable.
The second is wastewater management. The new septic tank systems are no better than the cess pools. Outhouses are safer. Composting toilets are safer.
A properly designed leachfield is probably the most realistic. Effluent from septic tanks needs to be distributed into shallow fields of soil that does not percolate too fast for the proper anaerobic (sp) processes to occur.
I shall now step down from the soapbox,
Dan