{"id":23400,"date":"2012-07-06T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=23400"},"modified":"2012-07-06T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T09:34:37","slug":"st-thomas-water-project-gets-475k-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/st-thomas-water-project-gets-475k-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas water project gets $475K funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Department of the Interior&#8217;s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas, Tony Babauta, has awarded $475,339 to the U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, or VIWAPA, through the Office of Insular Affairs&#8217; Water and Wastewater Program. This grant provides funding to support VIWAPA project implementation proposals for the Anna&#8217;s Retreat Water Project in St. Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Funding will support the installation of potable water distribution pipelines, service connections and fire hydrants that service the Anna&#8217;s Retreat Heights area. The proposed distribution system is expected to extend from Old Tutu North through the residential community to Route 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOIA is pleased to be supporting VIWAPA&#8217;s efforts to increase community access to potable water systems. Increasing access to sanitation and sustainable drinking-water systems brings large aggregate benefits that improve not only individual health but also the economic development outcomes of a community,\u201d said Babauta.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed project will assist VIWAPA in increasing their percentage of residential accounts connected to St. Thomas&#8217; East End water system by 55 percent. <em>(OIA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Department of the Interior&#8217;s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas, Tony Babauta, has awarded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-23400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-health-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}