Tribe: Shoshone Paiute Tribes
View Source Document: Shoshone Paiute Tribes Climate Resilience Plan
Year: 2020
Topic: Create redundant and resilient utility infrastructure with a focus on energy, water, and telecommunications.
Identify and map Duck Valley areas that do not have adequate cell phone service.
Explore opportunities to provide internet access to rural areas to improve wildfire evacuation, communication, and education/outreach.
Calculate cost scenarios for water usage that take into consideration wildfire and drought projections for Duck Valley.
Update flat rate for community water usage to include higher water treatment cost scenarios for wildfire and drought scenarios.
Do a financial audit of Duck Valley sewer (waste) billing system to ensure the Tribe is covering its costs and...
Do a financial audit of Duck Valley water billing system to ensure the Tribe is covering its costs and making...
Explore technologies that improve electric usage efficiency, reduces user cost, and reduces load on electric grid required by other critical...
Coordinate with cell phone service providers to complete a vulnerability assessment of the telecommunications system.
Identify opportunities to install greywater system technologies on Duck Valley for ranchers, tribal buildings, and other major water users.
Coordinate with Verizon (and other service providers) to enhance the resilience (including redundancies in the system) of telecommunications infrastructure to...
Explore opportunities to improve rainwater catchment on tribal buildings.
Ensure the generators at the clinic, Human Development Center, BIA housing units, water pumps, Tribal Council building, IT, correctional facility,...