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Council members press DES on $30M land purchase and H‑POWER expansion plans
Summary
Council members questioned DES’s budgeted land purchases and H‑POWER funding after director Roger Babcock said the city plans to buy adjacent parcels to Waimanalo Sanitary Landfill and the old AES site for a recycling campus; members requested clarity on permitting, timeline and community impacts.
A line item that drew pointed questions on March 12 was DES’s land‑acquisition funding tied to solid‑waste planning. Director Roger Babcock told the committee the department has budgeted $30,000,000 in FY27 (with additional land funds in following years) for purchase of property adjacent to the Waimanalo Sanitary Landfill—identified in the hearing transcript as Makaiva Gulch—while additional appropriations ($31,000,000 this year and $10,000,000 next year) were shown for land adjacent to the H‑POWER facility where the demolished AES coal plant sits.
Babcock said the purchase of adjacent parcels is intended to create space for a recycling campus and to preserve options for a future H‑POWER expansion or material recovery facilities. He…
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