US-led occupying forces in Iraq have completed the installation of a generator at a water lift station, providing jobs for Iraqis who have technical and mechanical skills. The station provides water to about 50,000 hectares of farmland in south central Iraq, reported Washington FIle.
Navy Seabees helped install the 1.3-megawatt generator at the Kish Water Lift. The station was supposed to be reworked three years ago but the parts ordered were not properly sized. As a result, the project was abandoned.
The new generator, which is so large it had to be moved into place with a crane, was refurbished in Kuwait this summer and transported to the city of Ad Diwaniyah to await installation at the plant.
In Mosul, the US 101st Airborne Division recently purchased 49 hand-held radios for the Mosul Police Department. The radios will be used to help the newly trained police force communicate throughout the Ninevah Province.
Additionally, the 101st is helping the Iraqi Public Safety Office draft a contract for $10 million in communications assets to go to ambulance services, fire departments and the Ministry of Civil Defense, as well as other police officers. — (menareport.com)
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