Lono Kona
Lono Kona
An ‘island of neglect’
discriminated against
The story of the Lono Kona sewers disturbed me no end.
The EPA notified the county in the 1980s that all large capacity cesspools must be closed. The county managed to shuffle paper and directors of the Environmental Management Division for over 20 years, avoiding action dictated by the EPA.
In late 1989 or 1990, a sewer project was begun in the area but stopped short of pushing it into the subdivision.
Nothing else happened for 20 years, so the EPA began notifying the individual lot owners. With the threat of fines, the owners banded together to promote the extension of the sewer into the subdivision.
There are sewer connections mauka and makai of the area, as well as north and south; Lono Kona is an island of neglect in the middle of a very sensitive environmental zone affecting both the ground water and the near ocean.
The county now wants the individual owners to pick up the tab for the sewer — in contradistinction to the projects in Naalehu, Honakaa, Komohana, Alii Drive, Lilioukalani and others.
Lono Kona has been subjected to many slights, even though it has been a good residence for many of the people who developed, worked and served the Kailua-Kona area.
It is the orphan of Kailua-Kona and continues to be abused.
No one else has had to create a Special Management district to pay for a sewer that serves the public good.
Why is it that this central Kona residential community been so discriminated against?
It seems that the county has a lot of questions to answer.
Robert Corsair
Kailua-Kona
Art work?
Removal of roadside mural is welcomed
I have limited knowledge of art, but the “art work” added along Alii Drive a few weeks ago doesn’t do Kailua-Kona any favors.
The large, gray plywood panels have for some time blocked the view from Alii Drive looking to the sea and I thought, why couldn’t someone paint a nice picture on it to add some color to the view it blocks?
The yellow and black faces were not what came to mind.
Mahalo nui loa to whomever took on the job of painting over it; I never thought I would like to have the gray plywood panels back, but I am.
B. Dempsey
Kailua-Kona