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I'm uh Corey Koger . I'm a debris

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subject matter expert from the

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Sacramento district , the Army Corps of

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Engineers and uh my normal day job ,

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I'm a water program manager as well as

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a chemist . So currently we're doing

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debris removal in what's called up

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country . Two towns called Coola and

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Alya , that's going to be about 22

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properties . Um And we are preparing to

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do a debris removal for about 1800

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parcels in Lahaina . That was the major

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focus of the fire damage , pending a

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creation of a temporary debris site to

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handle all of that material to the

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extent we can . We're going to recycle

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metal and concrete , that's going to

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help rebuild Lahaina and Coola . Um for

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the contaminated material . Uh We're

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going to do what's called Burrito

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wrapping . So under wet methods using

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misters and hoses , we will take that

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ash and debris and put it in plastic

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line trucks . Those trucks are then

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Burrito wrapped . That's the term that

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they use uh to encapsulate that

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material so that when it's hauled to

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the disposal site , it doesn't have any

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ash coming out of the trucks that will

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be placed in a temporary debris site as

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Maui County builds a final disposal

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cell and then it will be placed there

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by the core . The temporary disposal

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site is so that we can actually get the

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ash and debris out of Lahaina . We've

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seen a lot of progress from where we

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started . Um We're doing uh debris

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removal in up country . We hope to

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finish that by about mid December .

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Around that time , we'll have started

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construction on that temporary debris

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site for the Lahaina material . This

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one has hit me hard . This is my ninth

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fire debris mission . Um And this is a

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lot different from a cultural

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perspective . A lot of understanding

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and learning both ways um has occurred .

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So I think I've grown to understand

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Hawaii and the Hawaiian people a lot

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more . And what , what Lahaina actually

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means to this community .