COMMUNITY BRIEFS – November 8, 2021

Coastal construction training tomorrow

The CNMI Infrastructure & Recovery Program, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is conducting the Coastal Construction Training “Building Resilience” tomorrow, Nov. 9, 2021, from 7:30am to 8am, at the Aqua Resort Club on Saipan.

This is the first in a series of trainings to increase resilience and capacity in the CNMI. Attend virtually via Zoom at: https://fema.zoomgov.comi/j/1602063830; meeting ID: 160 206 3830; passcode: 4404.

It will be hosted by the IRP, with support from FEMA Building Science, Mitigation Assessment Team and FEMA Interagency Recovery Coordination for DR4404.

The meeting/training site and its electronic version of training materials are required to be fully accessible to people with disabilities.

Send an e-mail to Deveney Dela Cruz in the CNMI Infrastructure & Recovery Program or call 670-664-4775 or email at irp@irp.gov.mp.

Donate to Karidat via AmazonSmile

Do you shop on Amazon? Support Karidat Social Services this holiday season when you shop Black Friday, Christmas, and CyberMonday.

Karidat reminds the community to join Amazon’s AmazonSmile Charity Program on behalf of Karidat. AmazonSmile Charity is a meaningful way for people of the CNMI near and far to donate to Karidat every time they shop on Amazon. Just register at www.smile.amazon.com and type in Karidat as your charity, you will see Karidat, Saipan MP pop up, press select and you are all set. Use your regular Amazon username and password each time you log into www.smile.amazon.com . It’s that easy! There is no additional cost to your Amazon purchases. By using www.smile.amazon.com to make your favorite purchases, Amazon will donate 0.5% of all eligible purchases to Karidat. (PR)

5.3-magnitude quake in Maug region

At 1:46am on Nov. 5, 2021, a report of a 5.3-magnitude earthquake occurred of 19.027°N 145.060°E in the Maug Island region, Northern Mariana Islands. No tsunami warnings or advisories were issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. For more information, contact the CNMI EOC State Warning Point at 237-8000. (PR)

Emergency water service interruption

The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. would like to inform the public that there is currently an emergency water service interruption for customers in the areas of the entire Kagman, Papago, San Vicente, Upper Dandan homestead, Naftan and Obyan.

The emergency water outage started yesterday, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, at 5:30pm and will last until today, Nov. 8, 2021, at 6am.

This is due to the low tank level in the Kagman water tank that supplies water service to the affected areas. Customers in the high elevations will experience low pressure to no water. Operators identified four water wells that lost power supply yesterday morning and these wells are currently back online. However, the tank level is not able to keep up with the demand. Operators will continue to perform leak detection in the Kagman area to identify any major leaks affecting the tank level. More updates for this emergency water outage will follow as soon as it is available.

CUC continues to work diligently to minimize any inconvenience to its customers. For more information, contact the CUC Customer Call Center (664-4282) or monitor our Facebook page for the latest updates (https://www.facebook.com/CommonwealthUtilitiesCorporation/). (PR)