Vancouver, WA  ̶  If you have concerns about the risk of a natural hazard or ideas about how to minimize damage caused by one, the Clark County multi-hazard mitigation planning partnership wants to hear from you.

Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency is heading an 18-agency collaborative effort to update the countywide Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. The plan is the foundation of a long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of damage, reconstruction and repeated damage.

The partnership wants to learn about your opinions, experience and knowledge of natural hazards. Information you provide will help identify projects and strategies that lower the risk of injury, property damage and other impacts of future disasters. The partnership is looking for your perceptions, thoughts and ideas about these hazards: dam failure, drought, earthquake, flood, landslide, volcano, wildfire and severe weather such as ice, wind or a tornado.

Residents are asked to complete an online survey about how the risk of an event, or an earlier event, affected your lives and families, as well as thoughts on potential mitigation methods. To take the brief survey, go to www.surveymonkey.com/r/ClarkCounty2016HMP.

Participating jurisdictions and agencies include the seven cities and one town in Clark County, Clark Public Utilities, Port of Vancouver, C-TRAN, Clark County, Clark Regional Wastewater District, Fire District 3 and four school districts.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, requires plans to be updated periodically in order to be eligible for some federal grants.

For more information on the plan, go to http://cresa911.org/hazmitplanproject/.

CONTACT
Scott Johnson
Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency
(360) 690-6922
scott.johnson@clark.wa.gov