Facility Construction - Results Summary

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Department of Environmental Conservation
Facility Construction
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Assist communities in providing sustainable water, sewer and solid waste services in full regulatory compliance.

End Result A: Citizens are protected from unsafe sanitation facilities.

	The Village Safe Water Program has seen an annual average increase of 2.5% for serviceable rural Alaska homes served by safe and sustainable sanitation facilities over the past nine years with over 90% being served by the end of FY 2009.
	Status of Strategies to Achieve End Result
		Due to the increasing cost of addressing rural sanitation health related deficiencies (such as homes without running water and flush toilets, untreated drinking water, or leaking water and sewer mains) and an ongoing decline of federal funding available to address these deficiencies, the number of health related deficiencies we can address each year is declining. Instead of a 2.5% average annual increase in the percentage of health related sanitation deficiencies being funded, the opposite trend is occurring. Rural Alaska is experiencing a 3.5% average annual decrease.
		The operator certification program has seen a 12% increase in three years for the number of regulated systems that comply with water supply system operator certification requirements.

Current as of Dec 2 2009 10:22:04