STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2097

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2997
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 2997 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A WAIALUA-
     HALEIWA STORMWATER DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $500,000 to
develop a Waialua-Haleiwa stormwater drainage master plan.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources did not support
the measure due to budgetary constraints.

     Your Committee finds that the Waialua-Haleiwa flood plain is
located on the northwestern coast of Oahu and has an approximate
area of two square miles.  The watershed above the Waialua-
Haleiwa flood plain is the largest on Oahu, containing an area of
96.5 square miles.  On December 2, 1999, a storm occurred in the
Koolau which caused water to spill over the emergency spillway at
Wahiawa Reservoir into Kaukonahua Stream and caused flood waters
to rise up to the floorboards of homes at Otake Camp.

     The primary purpose of the Waialua-Haleiwa stormwater
drainage master plan will be to provide residents of Waialua and
the City and County of Honolulu with specific engineering
recommendations for the control of storm drainage throughout the
study area, to reduce repetitive flooding to residents and
businesses in the area, and to reduce the constant drain on city,
state, and federal resources whenever a flood occurs.

 
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     Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the
appropriated amount and by making technical, nonsubstantive
amendments for the purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2997, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 2997, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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