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Elk County Hazard Mitigation Plan Update ELK COUNTY HAZARD MITIGATION Clarion River, Ridgway PA 2017 Plan Update County officials began developing the county’s first Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) in 2006 and worked closely with Carolyn Benish of FEMA throughout the process. In late 2010 PEMA hired the consultant Michael Baker Jr., Inc. to assist Elk County in completing the plan. Elk County’s Hazard Mitigation Plan was formally adopted in 2011. Local Mitigation Plans must be updated at least once every five years in order to continue to be eligible for FEMA hazard mitigation project grant funding. Specifically, the regulation at 44 CFR 201.6(d) (3) reads: A local jurisdiction must review and revise its plan to reflect changes in development, progress in local mitigation efforts, and changes in priorities, and resubmit it for approval within five (5) years in order to continue to be eligible for mitigation funding. (Local Mitigation Plan Review Guide 2011) The Planning Process The Elk County Planning Department in cooperation with Elk County Emergency Management put together a Hazard Mitigation Planning Team (HMPT) in 2016 in order to prepare this update which included municipal officials and other stakeholders such as the Elk County Sheriff, local police force representatives and others. The HMPT assembled to review the plan in order to identify if there were any new hazards that affect the County, assess potential damages from those hazard events, select actions to address the County’s vulnerability to such hazards, and develop an implementation-strategy action plan in order to mitigate potential losses. Thank You The Planning Department and Emergency Management would like to thank Michael Baker Jr., for generously allowing us to utilize the content of their original plan. Most of the original data remains unchanged however in order to incorporate updates to the plan, formatting changes needed to be made. A copy of Michael Baker Jr.’s original Hazard Mitigation Plan is available upon request. We would also like to thank everyone that participated in the project by attending meetings or by providing updated data and pictures. Your input is much appreciated. Mike McAllister, Director Jodi Foster, Director Elk County Emergency Services Elk County Planning Department EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Overview Hazard mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life, property, and the environment resulting from natural and human-made hazards. The Elk County Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) was developed to identify the vulnerabilities and risks associated with hazards and to define a mitigation strategy to reduce these vulnerabilities. The Elk County HMP was adopted by the Elk County Board of Commissioners on May 14, 2018. The adopted and FEMA approved Elk County 2017 HMP can be accessed online here: www.co.elk.pa.us. FEMA requires that all jurisdictions have an approved HMP every five years in order to maintain access to Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants. There are many activities that jurisdictions should take to socialize the plan, maintain the plan, implement mitigation actions from the plan, and to integrate the risk assessment and mitigation strategy from the plan into other community documents over the five years between plan updates. The Five-Year Planning Cycle outlines a planning process, including the conduct of annual HMP review meetings, which will ensure that Elk County Figure 1: Five-Year HMP Planning Cycle concentrates on hazard mitigation throughout the five years to ensure the effectiveness of the HMP and to increase the efficiency in the next HMP update. Elk County will use the guidance and forms in the Local Mitigation Planning Handbook to guide the annual plan reviews and future update meetings: https://www.fema.gov/media- library/assets/documents/31598. This Executive Summary and Integration Tool summarizes information from the HMP related to the planning process to create the HMP, as well as the risk assessment and mitigation strategy from the HMP, to enable better identification of information that can be integrated into other community plans to reduce risk in Elk County. By integrating risk assessment information into other plans, the community can ensure that there are no conflicting policies, especially related to project implementation or land use or development. Additionally, the Elk County Planning Department and Emergency Management Agency can enhance efficiency in project implementation by identifying potential redundant efforts or by identifying other resources for implementation. Guidance and information about plan integration is included in the Plan Integration: Linking Local Planning Efforts: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/108893. All progress made on plan integration must be tracked and reported at annual meetings to include in the HMP update and to identify further areas for integration. Hazard Mitigation Planning Process Elk County developed an HMP in 2011 and this is the first update of the HMP since it was adopted. The Elk County Planning Department led a comprehensive update of the HMP beginning in 2016. The following agencies and organizations took part in the HMP update. Planning Partners Elk County Emergency Management Agency Elk County IT/GIS Elk County Sheriff’s Department St. Marys Police Department Elk County Housing Specialist Benezette Township Johnsonburg Borough Ridgway Township Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Elk County Emergency Services There were numerous changes made during the update process that were not reflected in the original plan. The update includes much more local information on past instances of hazardous events that impacted the county. It also includes more localized data that is relevant to Elk County such as: demographics, social characteristics, income, housing, etc. This was done in an effort to get a clearer picture of how local neighborhoods would be impacted during a hazardous event and what the economic losses would be as a result of a major incident. The plan update doesn’t reflect any significant increases or decreases in vulnerability to the hazards outlined in the plan except for flooding. Historic data does show an increase in the frequency of flooding events over the past twenty years. However, the severity of flooding, although still significant in some cases, is much less than decades ago. The implementation of flood control projects has helped to eliminate some of the worst flooding the county had seen in the past. Risk Assessment The HMP identifies twelve hazards that have the potential to impact Elk County. These hazards were ranked in order to identify the overall risk they pose. The PA STEEL methodology was used to determine ranking. PA STEEL weighs several criteria to determine ranking. The criteria include: Political, Administrative, Social, Technical, Economic, Environmental, & Legal. Table 6-4 on pages 148-151 summarizes the findings. Mitigation Strategy The plan update recognizes mitigation actions that have been completed during the previous five years since the original plan was written. New mitigation actions have been added and will be updated annually as projects are completed. In order to develop the Mitigation Strategy, the planning team identified their goals and objectives for reducing risk in Elk County and then identified mitigation actions to implement between plan updates to meet these goals and objectives. Goals and Objectives A list of Goals and Objectives can be found on page 135 in Table 6-1. These will be updated annually as projects are completed. List of Tables ii 4. RISK ASSESSMENT List of Figures iii 4.1 Process Summary 17 4.2 Hazard Identification 18-19 Contents 4.2.2 Summary of Hazards 19-20 1. INTRODUCTION 4.3 Hazard Profiles & Vulnerability 22 1.1 Background 1 Natural Hazards 22 1.2 Purpose 1-2 4.3.1 Drought 22 1.3 Scope 2 4.3.1.1 Location & Extent 22 1.4 Authority & Reference 2-3 4.3.1.2 Range of Magnitude 21 4.3.1.3 Phases of Preparedness 23-24 2. COMMUNITY PROFILE 4.3.1.4 Past Occurrence 24 4.3.1.5 Future Occurrence 24-25 2.1 Geography & Environment 3 4.3.1.6 Vulnerability Assessment 25 2.2 Community Facts 4 4.3.2 Flood Protection Measures 27 2.3 Population & Demographics 7 4.3.2.1 Dam Failure 27 2.3.1 Social Characteristics 8 4.3.2.2 Range of Magnitude 27-28 2.3.2 Disability 8 4.3.2.3 Past Occurrence 28 2.3.3 Income 8 4.3.2.4 Future Occurrence 28 2.3.4 Education 8 4.3.2.5 Vulnerability Assessment 30 2.4 Land Use & Development 9 4.3.3 East Branch Dam Repair 30-31 2.5 Data Sources & Limitations 12-13 4.3.3.1 Emergency Planning 31 4.3.3.2 Swift 911 Emergency 33 3. PLANNING PROCESS 4.3.4 Flood, Flash Flood, Ice Jam 35 3.1 Process and Participation Summary 13 4.3.4.1 Location and Extent 35-36 3.2 Planning Team 14 4.3.4.2 Range & Magnitude 36-37 3.3 Meetings & Documentation 14 4.3.4.3 Past Occurrence 38 3.4 Public & Stakeholder Participation 15-16 4.3.4.4 Recent Events 38-41 3.5 Multi-Jurisdictional Planning 16 4.3.4.4-1 Drowning 41 3.6 Existing Planning Mechanisms 16-17 4.3.4.4-2 Jay Township 41-47 4.3.7.6-1 Water Supplies 74 4.3.4.3 FMAP 47-48 4.3.7.6-2 Time of Travel 75 4.3.4.4 Future Occurrence 48-49 4.3.7.6-3 Evacuations 75 4.3.4.5 Vulnerability Assessment 49-50 4.3.7.6-4 Lack of Manpower 75 4.3.4.6 Additional Mitigations 50 4.3.7.6-5 Highland Hotel Fire 75-76 4.3.4.6-1 Act 167 Stormwater Mgmt.
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