Puna Geothermal Accident 3/13/13
Jim
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Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Ola’a (Kurtistown) Hawai’i 96760 Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org www.malu-aina.org
Aloha
Geothermal accident followup 3/14/2013
The numbers to call to file reports are Hawaii County Civil Defense, 935-0031, you may have to ask them to take your name I did. If they do not take your information let us know same with DOH.
Please file a report with State Department of Health Clean Air Branch:
In Hilo Ed Yammamoto at 933-0404,
and Nolan Harai in Honolulu C/O Lisa Young at 808-586-4200.
Puna Pono Alliance will be putting together an Emergency Response Recommendation list with contact numbers as soon as we can. When it is complete we will send that to everyone on our mailing list.
If you want to let your elected representatives know about your concerns:
To contact your state senator Russell Ruderman about this.
Senate District 2, Hawaii State Capitol, Room 217
phone: 808-586-6890, fax: 808-586-6899
senruderman@capitol.hawaii.gov
To contact Representative Faye Hanohano,
House District 4, Hawaii State Capitol, Room 418
phone: 808-586-6530, fax: 808-586-6531
rephanohano@capitol.hawaii.gov
To contact the Hawaii County council, through the county clerks office, (808) 961-8255 | Fax: (808) 961-8912, councilweb@co.hawaii.hi.us
The Hawaii County Planning Department, (808) 961-8288 | Fax: (808) 961-8742 Email: planning@co.hawaii.hi.us
and if want to let Mayor Billy Kenoi know, (808) 961-8211 | Fax: (808) 961-6553 | TDD: (808) 961-8521
Email: cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us
Bob
PS: here is an update from Diane who took the attached photos Diane was the first person to alert people to this accident just before 4:00pm.
Quick update: From Diane Thomas
I was smelling the H2S all the way up at my place a mile away! Civil Defense returned my calls and had the Fire Marshall come out to assess with Mike Kaleikini and his co-worker with the monitor, just before 6:30pm, in response to my complaint filed. By the time I got to the gate, the Fire Marshall already left! H2S reading at my gate was 8-9 PPM. Mike told me that the monitors were working and they went up to 19 PPM.
This morning, Dept. of Health returned my calls. I spoke with Ed Yamamoto. He said Mike did report the incident and “the AVERAGE reading was 19PPM, which is within their permit limit.” I asked, “If that was the AVERAGE, what was the high???” He didn’t have an answer for that.
Diane
