Options Database

Offer GIS hazard mapping tools online to educate residents about risks.

Offer more frequent transit options to routes with grocery stores and farmers markets.

Optimize the use of salt and sand to reduce impacts on natural areas and roadway maintenance.

Overlay social vulnerability maps with residential flood maps to identify areas and households most at risk.

Oversee clearing of County roads immediately following a debris-generating incident.

As part of a public information and engagement process, establish a buddy system for neighbors to support each other during floods. Local cultural institutions might serve as good partners.

Partner with banks to increase household emergency savings accounts.

Partner with businesses on long-term recovery.

Partner with community groups to proactively reach out to vulnerable people before and during extreme weather.

Partner with community members to bring together technical information and social considerations to better inform flood management in historically underserved areas.

Partner with FEMA to share flood maps with the community and adopt new maps.

Partner with golf courses to plant native vegetation in the buffer around water bodies and waterways. This practice lessons their need for chemical treatment.

Partner with local energy utilities to study the long-term effects of warmer summer temperatures and extreme high temperatures on summer load peaks and changes in residential air conditioning use in the service area.

Partner with nonprofits such as the United Way, Red Cross and Salvation Army to leverage existing programs to build individual and community preparedness.

Partner with surrounding communities and governing bodies on seawall projects.

Partner with the County and State Departments of Transportation to establish resilience road design standards for SLR.

Partner with the local utility to evaluate and address the possibility of increasing erosion and flood risk to transmission towers.

Partner with utility companies to ensure employees are prepared to respond when wildfires occur. Coordinate educational opportunities, wildfire training and mutual aid agreements.

Phase out septic systems where necessary to protect public health and water quality. Develop funding mechanisms to help homeowners with the cost of septic-to-sewer conversion.

Pilot approaches to bring landowners and key agencies together to plan and implement runoff management, erosion management and riparian restoration activities. Identify models and best practices for joint planning processes that enable effective implementation.