Options Database

Assess options for secondary access in landslide-prone areas.

Assess options to support active conservation of species (e.g., nurseries, seed banks), habitat restoration and regeneration or relocation of near-endangered species.

Assess the need for passive and active cooling and resilience retrofits in government facilities. Consider the impacts of increasing heat events and higher nighttime temperatures on operations and maintenance budgets.

Assess the potential impacts of landslides on emergency response using detailed data and research for roads, parcels and access points. Include an assessment of options for secondary access in landslide-prone areas.

Assess the vulnerability of forested areas to fire and develop a strategy to address that vulnerability.

Assist lower- and moderate-income homeowners with retrofitting projects by developing funding programs or facilitating access to funding resources.

Assure affordable access to safe drinking water for all.

Begin to track some of the basic health statistics of Lawrence County via County Health Rankings. {Goal: Increase the Overall Health of Spearfish Community}

Benchmark, disclose, and reduce energy use in city-owned buildings.

Beyond strengthening existing systems, increase system redundancy to protect critical infrastructure from power outages.

Bridge supports are weakened by the erosion of the underlying streambed. Strengthening these supports will prevent further damage to bridges and increase bridge resiliency during floods and storms.

Build adaptive capacity into any new asset put into the RAD and Biltmore Village, and other vulnerable commercial areas

Build electricity grid resilience by increasing system capacity, increasing tension in lines to reduce sag and adding external coolers to transformers. Lines and transformers may overheat and trip off during extreme heat.

Build or expand additional hardscaped water storage reservoirs.

Build levees or earthen dikes around flood-threatened critical public facilities.

Build partnerships with local nonprofits to increase opportunities for implementing green infrastructure. Green infrastructure helps manage stormwater on site, can improve water quality, can help protect coastal areas and offers cooling benefits when it is hot outside.

Build private public partnerships that add, improve and connect more trails to parks.

Build public awareness of the climate-related risks and the opportunities for early, coordinated action to address these risks.

Build retaining walls to protect against mass wasting — the movement of rock and soil down a slope — from mudslides.

Buildings can be built today with high ceilings on the ground floor so that the floor can be filled in as sea levels rise over time.