ABS will use the federal funding to construct a new water storage tank and distribution lines and connect approximately 300 new households to the ABS water distribution system.
Adequate water is crucial to both the health and economic development of communities.
This federal assistance will provide the resources needed to serve residents and strengthen their quality of life. The federal funding comes from the USDA's Water 2000 Program, which is designed to target investment in rural communities which face the most serious drinking water quality and distribution problems. I salute the hard work and initiative of Troy Parks, President of the ABS Water Cooperative, and its board members for seeking the federal funding. The federal funding is the result of the Bulletproof Vests Partnership Grant Program of 1998 which I cosponsored. I salute the efforts of Police Chief Michael Devoss and Mayor Chuck Scholz for their initiative in seeking the federal funding.