Mauna Kea Summit Management

[B Sager]

Four recommendations are made at a legislative hearing held in December 2010:

1. DLNR be made responsible for management of the Mauna Kea Summit.

2. Visitors to the summit be guided by leaders who understand the cultural and spiritual significants of the summit and who can convey that information to visitors.

3. That visitors be advised as to what is appropriate and inappropritate behavior and the prevention of inappropriate activities be enforceable by law.

4. An Aha Moku Council be created as an advisor to resource management decision makers.

What has not been discussed:

1. was the deep concern over contaminating the summit withe alien species.  Deliveries to the summit must be compelled to decontaminate their crates of instruments and a wash station is neede to sanitize all all vehicles heading to the summit. 

2. there are still a few older unlined cesspools being used at the older facilities, they should be upgraded immediately to septic tank system. 

3. There is great concern that toxic chemicals were poured down the drain and they now form a contaminated zone under the facilities. How far have they migrated is unknown.

4. There has yet to be a complete study of the endemic insects found at the summit in 1982-86. Some may be rarer than the Wekiu bug and are they still there or extinct??