Local emergency officials continue to make disaster mitigation progress
The
The plan, which is meant to help the county get as much assistance from the
But two attendees of the meeting,
When
Bathke said there are currently about 100 homes in the flood plain adjacent to
The committee decided the county should attempt to encourage residents near the flood plain to purchase flood insurance in an attempt to mitigate the potential costs to the homeowner after a disaster.
Bathke said they could add the flood plain information to the county's website to increase awareness about where the flood plain is located. He said this could lead to more people installing soil embankments to get out of the danger of the the flood plain.
"I would rather have people find out now and do the work to get themselves out," Bathke said.
Bathke also suggested doing work on
The LEPC meeting also led to a question from Overweg who asked Clem if a new disaster alert system could qualify for
Overweg said the area might benefit from an emergency notification system that could provide alerts to everyone in a specific area through text messages to a mobile phone or calls to a landline phone. Overweg mentioned one service, called CodeRED, that would cost about
With the flood vulnerability assessment and the notification service, Clem said the disaster mitigation plan is approximately 90 percent done. All that's left is to draft a copy and review it at the next public meeting, which will be held at
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