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| The Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission
has completed a comprehensive All-Hazard Mitigation
Plan for the Counties of Essex, Gloucester, King and
Queen, King William, Mathews, and Middlesex and the
Towns of Tappahannock, Urbanna, and West Point. The
purpose was to create a detailed multi-jurisdictional
plan aimed at reducing the harmful effects of natural
hazards on our communities. |
| The finished plan (MPAHMP)
was approved by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the
Federal Emergency Management Agency. Participating
jurisdictions with an adopted and federally-approved
hazard mitigation plan thereby become pre-positioned
and more apt to receive available mitigation funds
(such as the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)
program and the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP))
before and after the next disaster strikes. |
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| To make Middle Peninsula residents, communities,
government agencies, and businesses less vulnerable
to the effects of natural hazards through the effective
administration of hazard mitigation grant programs,
hazard risk assessments, wise floodplain management,
and a coordinated approach to mitigation policy through
state, regional and local planning activities. |
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| Hazard mitigation is defined as any action taken
to reduce or eliminate the risk to lives and property
as the result of a disaster. This can include anything
from carrying flood insurance to removing homes from
the floodplain, or from building a tornado safe room
to having winter weather and hurricane "survival
kits." All citizens can and should
play a part in making America's communities
more disaster resistant. |
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