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Local Mitigation Plan Updates

   
 
    Mitigation is the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people's lives and property through damage prevention and flood insurance. The impact on people and communities is lessened through measures such as, building safely within the floodplain or removing homes altogether, and creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from floods and other natural hazards.

What can you do to lessen the impact of flood disasters on your house?

•Build or purchase a house in a place with low or no flood risk.

•Purchase flood insurance.

•Elevate or move your house above the floodplain

•Elevate electrical components in your house above the floodplain.

•Place the furnace in your house above the floodplain.

•Put your washer and dryer in your house above the floodplain.

Multi-Hazard Mititgation Planning Guidance October 2006

WV State All-Hazards Mitigation Plan

Appendix A-Federal Mitigation Regulations

Appendix B - Former Governors Executive Order

Appendix C - Agency Endorsements

Appendix D - Stakeholder Profiles

Appendix E - Documentation of Planning Process

Appendix F - Executive Committee Members

Appendix G - Hazard Mitigation Legislative Initiatives

Appendix H - Hazard Profiles

Appendix I - Loss Estimate Tables

Appendix J - West Virginia All-Hazards Mitigation GIS

Appendix K - Tracking Form for Updates to GIS

Appendix L - Tracking Form for Updates to Local Plans

Appendix M - Evaluation Criteria and Strategy Prioritization Results

Appendix N - Funding Resources

Appendix O - Tracking Forms for Project Implementation

Appendix P - Tracking Form for Revisions to State Plan

Appendix Q - WV All-Hazards Mitigation Plan Crosswalk

 

   
             
 
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