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Local Hazard Mitigation Plan - Mitigation

Mitigation Action(s)
Continue public education program for informing residents of the hazards associated with severe weather.
Develop and implement a communications plan between the surrounding counties, regional and state government agencies during and after hazard events.
Mitigate structures within respective flood areas.
Provide back-up generators for critical facilites, including shelters and EOC, which need to maintain continuous power to protect human health and life.
Maintain the Volunteer Reception Center for coordinating volunteers who are willing to help with a severe weather incident.
Provide designated locations/facilities to house displaced animals after hazard events.
Develop plan for mass animal carcass disposal to prevent spread of disease after a hazard event.
Removal of dead trees within public right-of-way. (Townships)
Encourage participation in National Flood Insurance Program
Support Clark Lake and CJ Brown dam owners in maintenance efforts.
Replace deteriorated/restricted Countywide culverts.
Develop and implement a domestic water management/conservation program, to include livestock.
Seek funding to review and revise existing storm water ordinances to address existing developments.
Seek funding to elevate low laying roadways that continuously flood.
Remove debris in river and streams that contributes to flooding.
Infrastructure improvements and needed in floodplain and related areas to exist in water flow.
Maintenance of current flood control structures to regulate localized flooding near East Fork Buck Creek Conservation District.
Obtain Radar Omega as a countywide all hazard warning system
Develop/Update COOP - Countywide
Purchase weather radios as funding allows to provide alerts and warnings
Obtain storm ready certification
Install tornado siren for area that wish to have them when funding is available.
Installation of emergency generator and electrical upgrades at the Village water treatment plants
Sunnybrook Trail Storm Sewer Project
Green Vista Drive Storm Sewer Extension Project
Emergency Generator(s), Sewer Pump Station(s) and Governmnet Building (HIGH Priority)
Install Tornado Siren
Clearing Debris from Culverts, Drainage ditches, and streets
Funding for Temporary Facilities to Provide Shelter (LOW Priority)
Generators for shelter house, heritage hall and long term care facility
Replace undersized culvert at State Route 41 west of Asbury Church to reduce roadway flooding.
Build a tornado shelter in the Village
Provide tornado sirens.
Contaminant mitigation project for well water supply
Address flooding due to older undersized culverts along N. Mulberry St. and East & West Main Streets.
S. Scarff Road flooding acquisition project.
Address flooding at Spangler Road, Snyder Road and Lower Valley Pike.
Address bank stabilization/erosion control on Old Osborn Road at Little Beaver Ditch.
Flooding at Old Mill Road.
Monitor Limestone Quarry's potential for well contamination and increased flooding of Mud Run Creek.
Address flooding at Green Meadows Drive and Arnold Avenue intersection.
Address flooding at rear of 7033 Sunny Vista Drive.
Address flooding at rear of 4326 West Enon Drive.
Address flooding at Tall Timber Drive off of West Enon Drive.
Address flooding due to no drainagw at Culvert Shockley Road - 1/4 SE of Jamestown Road and Botkin Road.
Address flooding on Botkin Road due to lack of a drainage system.
Add backup generator for fire house
Address the flooding in the 4100 block of Lower Valley Pike.
Address Mitchell Road Flooding.
5300 Block of South Charleston Pike flooding acquisition project (1 completed, 2 more to be completed).
Provide tornado sirens
Coordinate the removal of dead trees within public right-of-way.
Encourage property owners of proper utilities maintenance, including trimming trees or burying power lines.
Promote alert and warning for the County.
Finalize implementation of MARCS communication equipment for use by Public Safety 911 Dispatch.
Update mapping system to identify existing shelters, where residents can go to seek safety in the event of severe weather. Coordinate with the Red Cross on identifying existing shelters.
Mapping existing critical culverts and storm drainage ditches near residential areas, roadways and low lying areas throughout the County.
Develop and coordinate use of temporary facilities for non-life threatening emergencies to alleviate the overloading of the medical facilities.
Incorporate functional needs into existing plans and procedures.
Create a Debris Management Plan.
Create a Clark County Long Term Disaster Recovery Plan
Create a Family Assistance/Family Recovery Plan
Obtain EAP's & Inundation Studies for all Class I & Class II Dams in Clark County.
Rehabilitate high hazard potential dams in Clark County.
Provide Tornado sirens. Six tornado sirens have been added.
Kenton Street flooding acquisition project.
Address wellhead contamination - there is a need of an underground pipe to run from Henderson Lake to the Mad River to alleviate the over topping of lake & impacting farm fields (over the aquifer).
Address the need for a levy or dike on the southeast corner of the lime sludge pond (the half white/half teal lake directly west of Henderson Lake) to hold back the bank erosion where flood water is filling the pond, dropping silt and reducing capacity of the pond, as well as flooding the farm fields & adjacent business park on Baker Road.
Address roadway flooding across State Route 54 North and Champaign Street.
Address the aging storm drain (catch basins & drain tile) infrastructures. (Especially problematic along Jackson Street)
Secure and install emergency generator for water facility.
Secure and install emergency generator for water municipal building.
Secure and install emergency generator for water facility.
Provide tornado safe room. Work with mobile home park owners to provide a safe room.
Provide tornado sirens. Four tornado sirens have been installed between 2012-2019.
Continue public education program for informing residents of the hazards associated with severe weather. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Encourage property owners of proper utiliteis maintenance, including trimming trees or burying power lines. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Continue public education program for informing residents of the hazards associated with severe weather. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Encourage property owners of proper utiliteis maintenance, including trimming trees or burying power lines. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Removal of dead trees within public right-of-way. Moved to Countywide Action Item.
Tillie Lane flooding study.
Provide tornado safe room. Work with mobile home park owners to provide a safe room.
Provide tornado sirens.
Flooding State Route 571 west of the city by ballfield.
Provide permanent shelters for mobile home parks and campgrounds, where citizens may seek safety.
Support and promotion for residential/community saferooms/tornado shelters.
Removal of dead trees within public right-of-way. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Removal of dead trees within public right-of-way. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Removal of dead trees within public right-of-way. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Removal of dead trees within public right-of-way. Changed to a Countywide Action Item.
Address bank stabilization/rehabilitation along Mad River near the lime sludge pond, south of Eagle City Road.

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