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SLIDELL
SLIDELL
Hazard mitigation plan
update presented
A final draft of the city of Slidell's updated hazard mitigation plan will be presented publicly during the City Council meeting on Tuesday. The council previously adopted the plan in early 2006, but it has since undergone additional revisions and must be approved again before it can be finalized.
The plan underwent major revisions to update drainage projects and other storm-related mitigation measures following Hurricane Katrina. Slidell has had a flood hazard mitigation ordinance on the books since 1987. The city's first repetitive-loss (properties with two or more loss claims since 1978) reduction plan was drawn in 1993.
Periodic updates of the plan and annual certifications by the Federal Emergency Management Agency , which oversees the National Flood Insurance Program, are required for Slidell to continue participation in the insurance program.
The plan is being updated by Beck Disaster Recovery Inc. to consider additional projects and to provide details about these mitigation projects to a level that could expedite funding when available, said City Engineer Donna O'Dell.
Funding for this update process is being provided through a grant from the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness called the planning pilot grant program and should streamline the process of project funding and completion, she added.
Three public meetings were held to explain the grant program and to allow citizens to provide input into the process from October of 2007 to February of 2008. To help expedite the approval process, concurrent with the public meeting next week, the updated mitigation plan is now under a final review by FEMA.
According to O'Dell, The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) has already approved the plan, and FEMA has reviewed it once and made comments. Now, they are reviewing the revised version that addresses those comments.
"It is crucial that we have the most up-to-date, on-target mitigation plan as possible in place to help minimize any future damage to our property and to ourselves," said Mayor Ben Morris.
For information, call O'Dell at 985.646.4270.
Published on NOLA.com
Published in The Times-Picayune Sunday, November 8, 2009
