I. CALL TO ORDER

Chair Jeffrey Harris called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. There was a quorum.
Attendance:

1. Board members present: Scott Derrickson, Jeffrey Harris, Mark Heckman, Gerry Silva, Toby
Rushforth, Ronald Walker and Christine Woolaway.
2. Director: Maile Bay
3. Education Coordinator: Elizabeth Harrington
4. GIS Coordinator: Mike McMahon
5. Guests: Rudy Rudolph (PILI), Wendy Okazaki (Friends of He'eia), and Judy Nakamura (CSF).

II. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS

A. Community Input

1. S. Derrickson - Announced that State Environmental Planning Office has a contract with Tetra Tech for a web-site using the data collected from water quality monitoring and sampling. Office of Planning has a contract out creating a web-site using bibliographic data that was collected Statewide on water quality monitoring sites.

2. R. Walker - Met with ARCH (they now have a core of twelve people) and noted that they will focus on discrete projects within the ahupua`a - possibly stream restoration work. ARCH is still planning to compete with Friends of He`eia for the management of said area; they have enough funds to apply for their 501(c)(3) status.

3. C. Woolaway - Sea Grant is working with Coastal Zone Management program on the Ocean Summit which will be held in Oct 2003 focusing on resource management. They will do a call for abstract and Woolaway suggested to Chair Harris that he submit an abstract on behalf of KBAC.

4. R. Walker - The Hawaii Conservation Conference will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village from July 10-11, 2003. This year's theme is the "Year of the Forest".

5. Wendy Okazaki (Friends of He`eia) - Stream restoration is scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month and is called "Community Work Day", held from 8:30-12 noon. On March 15th another community day called "Sun Spot" will be held from 10am to 8 pm. The council members thanked Okazaki for the Friends of He`eia State Park's 2003 calendars that were distributed.

6. M. Heckman - Announcement from Waikiki Aquarium (Ph: 923-9741, ext 8-107)
" Night Reef Walks: Feb. 15, Mar. 1, Mar. 15
" Aquarium After Dark: Mar. 7, Apr. 4, May 2, May 23
" Exploring the Reef by Day: Apr. 12, Apr. 27, May 17, June 1

B. Maile M. Bay - Executive Director's Report

1. Prepared draft RFP for Erosion Control Coordinator. The draft aims for an initial contract for six months, leaving it optional to extend for a longer period depending upon fulfilling the benchmarks and the evaluation of the effort.
Action: Vote on publishing an RFP.

Discussion ensued. Walker would like the list of duties identified. Woolaway will provide
contact names to the Director and suggested alerting CTAHR who would be able to provide
contacts with some extension agents. She also suggested partnering with other agencies,
especially those with extension services. Silva suggested naming specific relevant government
agencies such as Dept. of Planning and Permitting and others. Derrickson wants it known that
the area is limited to Ko`olaupoko and not island-wide. Voting has been tabled to give the
council time to review the RFP.

2. Attended the Water Resource Research Center's January 15-16 annual conference and gave a presentation on KBAC and its outreach activities. Approached by some staff from the Cook Islands who are interested in our community-based efforts. Highlights included:

a. Presentation by Wenhao Sun on field and lab studies of native plants using phyto-remediate hydrocarbons in deep soil; showed the milo and kou to be more most effective. During the question and answer period, the query on whether the plants are taking up the compounds or whether bacteria or other microbes were breaking them done was discussed as to whether the plants or microbes are doing the cleanup. This determination would require the use of radioactive compounds and be very difficult to do. The study has been very limited too.

b. Presentation by Ann Brasher, USGS, on detection of Chlordane and Dieldren that have both been banned for more than 20 years. Mega levels were noted in Hawaii streams, exceeding the criteria used in New York. Also sampled and found DDT in fish tissues. DDT has decreased over time, but Chlordane and Dieldrin are still high: are the rains bringing the compounds out of the soils as seen in the samples? Looked for arsenic that was found highest in agricultural lands and lead in urban areas. Also looked at habitat variables in aquatic communities that reflect more abundance in urban area, but more insects and only natives in forest sites, including Kaneohe and Waihee Streams in Ko`olaupoko. Hawai`i has the reverse situation from the Mainland; here overall we have lower abundance of species in forest areas, but higher diversity.

c. Presentation by Roger Fujioka noted a need for sampling protocol by creditable organizations that reassess water quality standards for tropical environments where standard indicator bacteria are contained in all soils (not just sewage contaminated areas) such as the protocol that he has been working on with the indicator C. perfrigens, the pathogen found in the human gut, over the standards used on the Mainland. The same bacteria would also be a good indicator on the Mainland too. In the one study at Kuhio Beach, where C. perfrigens was found, it did not show disease, so it was not acceptable as an indicator of disease, per the powers that be.

3. Dredging and disposal of the materials from mauka of the Ka'elepulu Stream bridge, by Buzz's
restaurant:

a. Investigated the dredging activities that occurred in January and ended by January 24th mauka of
the bridge by Buzz's restaurant at the mouth of Ka`elepulu Stream at the request of a board
member. With the assistance of David Nagamine, the City and County staff at the Highways
Division advised that it had removed about 600 cubic yards of "blackened" sand within the
permitted area, 200 feet mauka of the bridge, to a depth of 3 feet (the depth of the backhoe
bucket) to allow water to flow under the bridge and out the mouth of the stream. The 10 truck
loads of dewatered sand is being stockpiled on Kapa`a Quarry Road, in mounds across from the
solid waste transfer station to be reclaimed and replaced on the beach at the mouth of Kaelepulu
stream after it bleaches in the sun and the black material is washed by the rain. No sampling of
the dredge material has been done or is being planned.

b. Inquired about stockpiling permit requirements for the mound behind Kawai Nui Marsh. Being
in the Preservation Zone and the SMA, the mound is a disallowed activity plus any stockpiling of
over 100-cubic yards requires a stockpiling permit. David Nagamine is aware of this proposed
action.
Action: Vote on whether KBAC files formal complaint.

A motion was made by Rushforth and seconded by Walker to have the Director craft a letter of
complaint (to City Grading and Grubbing) based on compliance. Vote: 7 ayes.

Silva recommended copying it to the City Complaint Office to make sure it moves along.

4. Attended KBAC's January 25th workshop with a presentation by Dave Penn, DOH staff, on initial data collection and implementation plan for Kane`ohe Stream TMDL. The good news is that DOH is willing to accept KBAC's Stream Survey Assessment information as supporting information for the nomination of streams to the 303(d) list for TMDL streams; the call for data deadline is approximately October 2003 - the list will be submitted to EPA in April 2004. One interesting fact is that 48.6% of the land area near Kane`ohe Stream is within forest and 18.6% is residential, with the remaining areas in agriculture (banana farming) and industrial. Most have given up on restoration in this watershed due to its level of high urbanization.

Snapshot of Totals:
Forest (48.6%) Residential (18.6%)
Nitrogen 34.8% 35.9%
Phosphorous 22.0% 50.4%
Suspended Solids 34.0% 39.5%

Discussion of the implementation plan proposes to focus on actions that look at activities and a framework for the community, not restoration activities.

Proposed strategies identified include, but are not limited to:
" increasing community interest and capacity,
" protecting and
" enhancing ecosystems, reducing nutrients and sediment in runoff, and establishing vegetative buffers.

The Kane`ohe Stream Biological Assessment is due out this week.
Of the four areas in the moku, South Kane`ohe, the Kane`ohe Stream System, and Kea`ahala Stream have had the least amount of capacity within the community to address water quality issues. Recommendation is to focus implementation activities in this area, establishing a public effort through regular community outreach effort with the assistance of both KBAC coordinators and the Director and PILI staff.
Action: Approve initiating community outreach effort in Kaneohe.

Heckman asked the Director to write up a game plan for the next meeting (ex: benchmarks,
budget, how are you going to get the groups to participate, how do you raise public
consciousness). Woolaway suggested some resource people that might be helpful (retrieve
names from previous public meetings); Derrickson asked the Director to check with Windward
Mall if posters/pictures could be put up to educate about the watershed.

5. PILI staff attended December 18, 2002, and January 23, 2003, ASG meetings for Kailua Waterways project. In December, Geo Tex gave a presentation on erosion control devices and the discussion was focused on reviewing action framework for Ka'elepulu sub-watershed. In January, a presentation was made on soil amendments.

6. KBAC Employee and Contractors' status and proposals: Matrix and attachments on proposals to be presented in executive session.

C. Mike McMahon - GIS Coordinator

KBAC Master Plan Maps

1. Jim Corcoran had a number of issues with the maps as they were included in the Draft Master
Plan. Collected the GPS data on a branch of Kahana`iki stream and made the other changes he
requested. He has approved the revised maps.

2. Reviewed the naming conventions with Eric Guinther and Susan Miller for the various urban
Kailua waterways. Arrived at a consensus that will appear on the maps. During our discussion
it came to our attention that the perennial streams data provided by the State Office of Planning
inaccurately shows Kawai Nui Canal connecting with Oneawa Canal (this connection is also
incorrectly shown on the USGS quads). This error has been corrected for the final version of
the KBAC maps

3. Additional changes have been made to the maps at the request of the Director. The "Land Use"
maps now more clearly name "City and County Zoning" and showing all zones rather than the
former simplified version. "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wetland Type" replaces "Wetland Types".

Website

1. The "Interactive Stream Awareness Survey Data Locator" presented at the last KBAC meeting
has been reworked using the interactive mapping capabilities of ArcIMS to create a dynamic map. Although the first version received positive feedback, its reliance on static images was a drawback. Superficially, the new version looks and behaves much like the version presented at
the last meeting, but it is now a much more powerful tool. It is now similar to the mapping tools
available at mapquest.com, where one can jump to predefined areas (e.g., Kailua), pan around,
and zoom in or out. Data can be set to appear at different scales, enabling the viewer to find
more information (e.g., zoom in close and the street names appear).

2. Spoke with a representative from "Science and Technology International" that has provided several UH professors with aerial imaging of the reefs of Kailua and Kane`ohe Bay. He noted that NOAA has already contracted them to do the entire State, and with the expensive cost of this data (~$50,000 for Kaneohe Bay), advise waiting the approximate year until NOAA makes the data available.

3. HawaiiCity.com awarded the KBAC website the local "Aloha Award."
Spoke to Lauren Apiki, LET Executive Director, about website promotion. Given the content of
the KBAC website, she noted that the general public is not necessarily our primary audience and
it is probably not reasonable to simply count the number of hits and compare it with a consumer-
driven site. Lauren noted that the Kulokuloku site that LET is developing might function as a
more user-friendly "general public entrance" to KBAC activities.

Other

1. Assisted David Penn (Environmental Planning Office) in putting together information for the
January 25th KBAC Community Meeting. Penn expressed interest in our Ko'olaupoko-wide
database of Department of Health water quality monitoring sites and a copy will be provided to
him. He noted that TetraTech EM has been funded to do a similar task for the entire State.

2. On January 16th attended a conference put on by the Water Resources Research Center
("Scientific, Regulatory and Cultural Factors Influencing Water and Environmental Issues in
Tropical Pacific Islands").

D. Elizabeth Harrington - Education Coordinator's Report

1. Met with the Director, PILI staff, and the GIS Coordinator to discuss work progress.

2. Working with GIS Coordinator to create a website "Drawing" contest to encourage hits to the site. Also, developing a Public Service Announcement/Press Release about the website and drawing contest.

3. Windward Community College MOP program has had three students sign up to participate in the KBAC Outreach Assistant Project for this semester. Training will begin on Monday, January 27, 2003.

4. December 12th contractors' network meeting was well attended. Each contractor gave a brief introduction and short presentation of their project while others interjected ideas and suggestions. Contractors agreed to participate in the March 15th Sun Spot Festival to be held at He`eia State Park. Contractors will be available to discuss water quality projects using visuals and interactive activities with community members.

5. Dave Penn from the Department of Health spoke at the January 25th KBAC Community Workshop. He addressed the State's water quality standards and TMDL's and is in the process of developing the TMDL implementation plan for Kane'ohe Stream. 25 people participated.

6. Will be participating as a facilitator and resource person at the Windward Watershed Symposium
to be held at Windward Community College on Thursday, January 30th.

7. Applied for a Boat U.S. Foundation 2003 Clean Water Grant ($2,000). Met with He`eia Kea Pier
Harbor Master and discussed the feasibility of a recycling collection/education program on site.

7. Requesting approval to attend the "Saving Our Coastal Heritage Conference" to be held from
April 13-16, 2003 in Baltimore, Maryland.

A motion was made by Derrickson, seconded by Rushforth, to have Harrington attend the
conference and present a poster session and a written report to KBAC on her return. Vote: 6
ayes, 1 abstention.

III. MINUTES

December 11, 2002 minutes
Walker moved, seconded by Heckman, to accept the minutes. Vote: 7 ayes.

IV. NEWSLETTER & WEBSITE

It was suggested that an announcement be placed on the website and in the next newsletter to
inform the community that we have an open RFP and proposals are still being received by KBAC.

V. EXECUTIVE SESSION

Discussion - KBAC contracts and pending proposals.

VI. MEETING

Meetings will be held at Windward Community College, Hale Alaka`i #118 at 6:45 pm:

March 12, 2003 (Wednesday)
April 30, 2003 (Wednesday)

VII. ADJOURNMENT

The business meeting was adjourned at 9:20 pm.