Watson Okubo Quotations

Until this rain stops and we get a lot of sun, it's going to take awhile.

No one in state government, no one in city government, no politician, the director of health, the deputy director or my supervisor told me to post the signs now, or you need to take the signs off right now. We go by the numbers and we stand by the numbers.

With more data, we might have to post for more beaches.

Unfortunately, our Web site is not where we want it to be.

When you see the kind of numbers we've seen, it has to be a high-volume operation.

Tomorrow, hopefully there's a lot of sun like today, and if that's the case we may be able to pull signs off Thursday or Friday, assuming we don't have any more rains.

We assumed the sewage would lessen the salinity, but at surf sites, that wasn't the case.

The water right now on the Windward and North Shore is really not the place to be.

The water is really nasty. So don't go in the water.

During the height of the spill, the conditions were 20,000 times over our standard and we find that very alarming.

It's not something a lay person can just look at the numbers and come up with a decision. That's why it's very difficult to explain.

It's still not safe to go in the water. Besides the bacteria, there are other contaminants that's in the water -- we have pesticides, heavy metals, stuff like that.

If no improvements are done the signs just stay up.

The levels here have, we're talking about, a magnitude of six times. It indicated to us there is some fecal contamination making its way to the beaches here.

The levels have returned to normal, ambient levels.