SB2567 Cesspool upgrade required for house sales

[leo]

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Originally posted by Obie

$12,000.00 to put in a new septic system that meets the latest requirements . That included cleaning out and filling the cesspool !

Our water association has been requiring new subscribers to upgrade for several years.We forced 5 conversions last month.

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Could you please provide the link for your meeting minutes so I can read more about it? Thanks.

[randomq]

What would happen if you "forced conversions" and those people couldn't afford them?

[kalakoa]

What would happen if you "forced conversions" and those people couldn't afford them?

Who cares? They can't afford to live here, they can just move, right? The cheap land/low taxes won't last forever.

[Obie]

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Originally posted by leo

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Originally posted by Obie

$12,000.00 to put in a new septic system that meets the latest requirements . That included cleaning out and filling the cesspool !

Our water association has been requiring new subscribers to upgrade for several years.We forced 5 conversions last month.

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Could you please provide the link for your meeting minutes so I can read more about it? Thanks.

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http://www.kkwa.org/intro%20letter.pdf

[Obie]

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Originally posted by randomq

What would happen if you "forced conversions" and those people couldn't afford them?

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They would lose their water meter and would have to revert to catchment.

[MattKarma]

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Originally posted by kalakoa

What would happen if you "forced conversions" and those people couldn't afford them?

Who cares? They can't afford to live here, they can just move, right? The cheap land/low taxes won't last forever.

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Some may have a real problem; others you might actually be saving them by moving them to places where there real jobs, industry. Not everyone needs the endless vacation.

***Still can't figure out how to spell 'car' correctly***

[Midnight Rambler]

Interesting; at the hearing on Monday, it was deferred until today, and then today it was deferred again until tomorrow. Maybe some changes are on the way? It looks like this hearing was the first time they got any negative testimony. All the other bills up on Monday were passed out of the committee.

[birdmove]

I left my views on this at the website.

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[Kapoho Joe]

How about the powers that be figure out how to stop dumping municipal sewage into Hilo Bay and then we'll talk about going after the little guy?

[Midnight Rambler]

Ok, I just realized that everyone (including me and, apparently, the Tribune-Herald) got played here. The "amendments" passed out of the Energy and Environmental Protection committee on the 16th (passage from which is referred to in the article) consisted of wiping out the substance of the bill and replacing it with a proposal to establish a cesspool task force to study how to get everyone to replace them. But since the versions of the bill seem to be listed in reverse-alphabetic instead of chronological order on the website, it's not clear that the current version is actually SB2567 HD1, not SD2.