Landfill Facts

Choosing a new landfill site requires planning and foresight, not simply keeping an election promise!

Fact: Mana will be full in seven years. Pau!

Fact: A&B will not sell their land to the County for the Umi project.

Fact: The County must file condemnation proceedings (a court action) to take the A&B land under “eminent domain.”

Fact: Condemnation proceedings will take a minimum of 10 years.

Fact: The county will hire “legal experts” to fight A&B’s legal team and will cost $1 million-plus in taxpayer money, likely much more!

Fact: If the county were to win out over A&B, it will take at least another year minimum to permit and construct the Umi landfill.

Think! That’s four years or more past the end of Mana landfill’s life expectancy before Umi can be opened. What will our county do with the trash during the 4-plus years we do not have a landfill?

Fact: Two public schools are two miles from the Umi site. ‘Ele‘ele School will be downwind most of the time. Kalaheo School will be downwind during Kona or Ni‘ihau winds. ‘Ele‘ele School already contends with KIUC’s diesel exhaust during Kona wind episodes.

Fact: A shopping center with grocery store and eateries are within two miles of the Umi site, downwind.

Fact: Port Allen — a visitor destination, local jobs and businesses, Coast Guard, harbor and fishing club — is two miles downwind of the Umi site.

Fact: Two communities will have this landfill in their “front yard.” Brydeswood and New Mill are not NIMBY!

Fact: Two towns will have justifiable NIMBY status. Kalaheo and ‘Ele‘ele. Add Hanapepe too!

Jeff Kritz, Kalaheo