This agreement provides funding to the city of saint paul in alaska, to assist underserved and small or disadvantaged communities with increasing drinking water system resilience to natural hazards

Activities:the activities include planning, design, and construction of a project that will increase resilience of public water systems to multiple natural hazards and threats. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include repairs, replacements, upgrades, and improvements to the city of saint paul's drinking water utility. The expected outcomes include reduction of time that water pumps are inoperable due to power outages; reduction of city funds and staff time spent performing manual daily efficiency checks and on temporary repairs to water utility facilities; improved tracking of and reduction of staff time spent on drinking water readings; increased accuracy of chlorine levels in the drinking water system due to the addition of modern technology for determining chlorine levels and ability to fine-tune levels; reduction of number of times the community is warned of possible contamination of the drinking water system and instructed to boil water; and reduction of risk of long-term degradation of water quality in the well field aquifer and individual water supply wells. The intended beneficiaries include the residents of the city of saint paul.