The community originally expected to have the portable water plant months ago.
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Tuluksak secures additional federal funds for permanent water plant
Three and a half months after its water plant burned down, the village of Tuluksak has secured enough funding to build a new one.
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Tuluksak will lose its only source of running water during breakup
The temporary system is too fragile to withstand the ice floes released during breakup.
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Tuluksak got a special water treatment system for the whole village, but the school was only using it for itself
Workers in Tuluksak installed a system with extra filtration to provide cleaner water intended for drinking. But up until mid-April, most people in Tuluksak didn’t get to drink the water from this second system.
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Nearly 3 months after water plant fire, National Guard meets with Tuluksak tribal leaders about next steps
During the meeting, council members shared their current needs and discussed potential spring flooding.
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Alaska’s disaster law is vague. And it can leave communities like Tuluksak scrambling for help.
On average, all of Alaska’s governors over the past decade have issued a disaster declaration within 29 days of a crisis occurring. Gov. Mike Dunleavy, with an average of 45 days for disaster response, is pulling that overall average up.
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After calls for action on social media, Gov. Dunleavy issues emergency declaration for Tuluksak water crisis
The governor’s emergency declaration for Tuluksak frees up $1 million in state relief funds.
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3 weeks later, still no state disaster relief for Tuluksak water crisis
Gov. Dunleavy has yet to declare a state-level disaster to address Tuluksak’s water crisis. In doing so, he’s holding back up to $1 million in disaster relief funding for the village.
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Water donations trickle into Tuluksak but may not be enough for village in crisis
Brian Lefferts, Director of Environmental Health & Engineering at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, wrote in an email that he knows of six pallets of water scheduled to be delivered but did not say where the water was coming from.
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No easy answers after fire destroys Tuluksak’s water supply
In the short term, the community wants to connect its well to the school. But the well pulls up water from the Tuluksak River, which isn’t safe to drink.
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