Attachment A Record of Adoption Council Resolution 03-09, FD1 Establishing a City Policy That Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Should Not be Located Over the City’s Underground Drinking Water Sources DATA FOR THIS RECORD AS OF 12/I 6/04 Resolution 03-09 FD1 Introduced: 0 1/10/03 by: MIKE GABBARD Re: POLICY RE LOCATION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS LANDFILL. MIKE GABBARD. POLICY. SOLID WASTE. WASTE DISPOSAL. WATER. WATER CONTAMINATION. WATER MISCELLANEOUS. WATER POLLUTION. WATER SAFETY. Present status: Adopted 04/16/03 Title: RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A CITY POLICY THAT MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS SHULD NOT BE LOCATED OVER THE CITY’S UNDERGROUND DRINKING WATER SOURCES. Gist: Resolution History: 0 1/16/03 PW COUN Committee Rept. No. 14(2003) Resolution reported out of committee for adoption as amended in CD! form. 01/29/03 COUNCIL COMM Resolution 03-09, CDL. and PW CR-14 referred back to Public Works Committee. 04/02/03 PW COUN Committee Rept. No. 108 (2003) Resolution reported out of committee for adoption. 04/I 6/03 COUNCIL ADOPT PW CR-I 08 adopted. Resolution amended to FD I and subsequently adopted as amended (Res. 03-09, FDI). CACHOLA. ROMY Y DELA CRUZ. DONOVAN Y DJOU, CHARLES Y GABBARD. MIKE Y GARCIA. NESTOR Y KOBAYASHI. ANN Y MARSHALL. BARBARA Y OKINO. GARY Y TAM, ROD Y Related Communications: CC 15, 2003 by: MIKE GABBARI) Submitting a Disclosure of interest Statement reporting that lie is founder/president of Healthly Hawaii Coalition. CC 136, 2003 by: ANN KOBAYASHI Informing of the circulation of a proposed Fl) 1. D 42, 2003 by: BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY Supporting Resolution. 1)342.2003 by: BOARI) OF WATER SIJPPLY Supporting Resolution. D 344. 2003 by: BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY Supporting Resolution. M 23, 2003 by: U.S. EPA. REGION IX Concurring that alternative sites for the proposed Kunia landfill should be considered. M 24, 2003 by: BRENNON MORIOKA Opposing Resolution. M 33, 2003 by: S. SANAETOKUMURA Opposing Resolution. M 42, 2003 by: STEPHEN H. MACMILLAN THE ESTATE OF JAMES CAMPBELL Asking that consideration be given to the need for landfill sites. M 45, 2003 by: CAROL MITSUYASU URS CORPORATION Testifying on behalfof URS Corporation in opposition Resolution 03-09, CD!. M 375, 2003 by: STEPHEN H. MACMILLAN THE ESTATE OF JAMES CAMPBELL Testifying on behalf of The Estate of James Campbell in commenting on the proposed measure. M 376, 2003 by: GEORGE FOX ADVOCATES FOR CONSUMER RIGHTS Testifying on behalf of Advocates For Consumer Rights in support of Resolution 03-09. CITY COUNCIL 1~i~ ) CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU 03-09, FDI HONOLULU, HAWAII No. __________________ RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A CITY POLICY THAT MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS SHOULD NOT BE LOCATED OVER THE CITY’S UNDERGROUND DRINKING WATER SOURCES. WHEREAS, both the groundwater protection zone, established by the City’s Board of Water Supply, and the underground injection control line (“UIC”) , established by the State Department of Health, are intended to protect the City’s precious underground drinking water from contamination; and WHEREAS, the State Department of Health has expressed its preference for the City’s “non~-degradationapproach” of protecting drinking water sources by siting landfills seaward of the UIC line; and WHEREAS, the City’s Board of Water Supply also opposes the placement of a municipal solid waste (“MSW”) landfill over the City’s drinking water sources; and WHEREAS, there is no current landfill technology that can guarantee that hazardous or other harmful substances from a MSW landfill placed over the city’s aquifer will not, over the long~- term, enter the city’s drinking water sources and pose a risk to the public health and welfare of Honolulu’s citizens; and WHEREAS, in Hawaii, a number of toxic waste contaminated sites are former landfills; and WHEREAS, prevention of contamination of the City’s drinking water, through the placement of MSW landfills outside the groundwater protection zone and the UIC, is preferable to the remediation of contaminated drinking water; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that it hereby establishes as a policy of the City that municipal solid waste landfills should not be located anywhere above the Department of Health’s Underground Injection Control line, within the Board of Water Supply’s groundwater protection zone, or over any of the City’s drinking water sources; and 0CS00233 . R03 RESOLUTION BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Clerk is requested to send copies of this resolution to the Director of Environmental Services, the Director of Planning and Permitting, the State Director of Health, the Board of Water Supply and the Mayor. INTRODUCED BY: Mike Gabbard DATE OF INTRODUCTION: January 10, 2003 Honolulu, Hawaii Councilmeinbers (OC5/040503/ct) 2 ADOPTED CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU HONOLULU, HAWAII 4/16/03 Reference: AYE NO NE I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was cACHOLA x Report No. 108 adopted by the COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY DELAcRUZ X OF HONOLULU on the date and by the vote indicated to DJOU X the right. GABBARD ATTEST: GARCIA — X KOBAYASHI X Resolution No. MARSHALL X 03—09, PDI GENEVIEVE G. WON~ GA H.OKINO OKINO X CITY CLERK CHAFR AN RESLOING OFFTCER TAM X Dated 4/16/03 0 dITY COUNCIL CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU HONOLULU, HAWAII No. 03-09. CDI RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A CITY POLICY THAT LANDFILLS SHOULD NOT BE LOCATED OVER THE CITY’S UNDERGROUND DRINKING WATER SOURCES. WHEREAS, recently, a solid waste firm has approached the City to propose development of a landfill in an agricultural area in Central Oahu that is within the groundwater protection zone and above the underground injection control line (“UIC”) and WHEREAS, both the groundwater protection zone, established by the City’s Board of Water Supply, and the UIC, established by the State Department of Health, are intended to protect the City’s precious underground drinking water from contamination; and WHEREAS, the State Department of Health has expressed its preference for the City’s “non-degradation approach” of protecting drinking water sources by siting landfills seaward of the UIC line; and WHEREAS, the City’s Board of Water Supply also opposes the placement of a landfill over the City’s drinking water sources; and WHEREAS, there is no current landfill technology that can guarantee that hazardous or other harmful substances from any landfill placed over the city’s aquifer will not, over the long- term, enter the city’s drinking water sources and pose a risk to the public health and welfare of Honolulu’s citizens; and WHEREAS, in Hawaii, a number of toxic waste contaminated sites are former landfills; and WHEREAS, prevention of contamination of the City’s drinking water, through the placement of landfills outside the groundwater protection zone and the UIC, is preferable to the remediation of contaminated drinking water; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that it hereby establishes as a policy of the City that landfills, including but not limited to landfills for the OCS00021 .RO3 RESOLUTION disposal of municipal solid waste, construction waste, hazardous waste, or biological waste, should not be located anywhere above the Department of Health’s Underground Injection Control line, within the Board of Water Supply’s groundwater protection zone, or over any of the City’s drinking water sources; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Clerk is requested to send copies of this resolution to the Governor, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Hawaii State Legislature, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Mayor, the Director of Environmental Services, the Director of Planning and Permitting, the State Director of Health, and the Board of Water Supply. INTRODUCED BY: Mike Gabbard DATE OF INTRODUCTION: January 10, 2003 Honolulu, Hawaii Councilmembers (OCS/0l2203/ct) 2 ADOPTED CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU HONOLULU, HAWAII Reference: AYE NO NE I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was CACHOLA Report No. adopted by the COUNCIL OF THE CITY AND COUNTY DELA CRUZ OF HONOLULU on the date and by the vote indicated to DJOU the right. GABBARD ATTEST: GARCIA KOBAVASHI Resolution No. MARSHALL 03—09, CD1 GENEVIEVE G. WONG GARY H. OKINO OKINO CITY CLERK CHAIR AND PRESIDING OFFICER TAM Dated ______ ___________ 6c% CITY COUNCIL CITY AND couNTy OF HONOLULU No 1 ~ — RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A CITY POLICY THAT MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS SHOULD NOT BE LOCATED OVER THE CITY’S UNDERGROUND DRINKING WATER SOURCES. WHEREAS, recently, a solid waste firm has approached the City to propose development of a municipal solid waste (“MSW”) landfill in an agricultural area in Central Oahu that is within the groundwater protection zone and above the underground injection control line (“UIC”); and WHEREAS, both the groundwater protection zone, established by the City’s Board of Water Supply, and the UIC, established by the State Department of Health, are intended to protect the City’s precious underground drinking water from contamination; and WHEREAS, the State Department of Health has expressed its preference for the City’s “non-degradation approach” of protecting drinking water sources by siting landfills seaward of the UIC line; and WHEREAS, the City’s Board of Water Supply also opposes the placement of a MSW landfill over the City’s drinking water sources; and WHEREAS, there is no current landfill technology that can guarantee that hazardous or other harmful substances from a MSW landfill placed over the city’s aquifer will not, over the long- term, enter the city’s drinking water sources and pose a risk to the public health and welfare of Honolulu’s citizens; and WHEREAS, in Hawaii, a number of toxic waste contaminated sites are former landfills; and WHEREAS, prevention of contamination of the City’s drinking water, through the placement of MSW landfills outside the groundwater protection zone and the UIC, is preferable to the remediation of contaminated drinking water; now, therefore, Pw.