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Friday, October 10, 2014

County Hazard Plan: Rising Sea Levels, Landslides?

While reading any hazard report with a nonzero entry for risk of landslide on the peninsula can give one pause, the rest of the updates to 2006’s hazard mitigation plan pleased officials enough to move it along in the approval process.

Widespread distribution is the next step, with the full text being made available to other municipalities under the plan’s sphere of influence, the public and the scheduling of a public hearing on the topic within council chambers.

From there, the municipalities will have to approve the draft plan before it comes back to the commissioners for approval. After all that, the plan goes back to FEMA for its approval. FEMA endorsed the preliminary draft of the plan unaffected by recent changes in March.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd like to apply for a grant to study what can be done to mitigate the risks from landslides here on the shore. How many hundreds of thousands can I get?

Anonymous said...

Land slides around here worry me the most.

Anonymous said...

Here on the shore you have a better chance of sliding on dog crap than you do of experiencing a landslide.

Anonymous said...

The only landslide I expect to see is Norm Conway and Jim Mathias getting buried in the election.

Anonymous said...

Emergency Management is always trying to justify its bloated department.