Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency has begun to review the Lincoln County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan using the guidelines as provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and we need your help to be successful in this endeavor.

The purpose in reviewing the Hazard Mitigation Plan is to update the assessments of Lincoln County's risk to disasters, inventory critical infrastructure, address special need populations, and develop goals and strategies to lessen the impacts of a potential disaster.

Examples of disaster mitigation include: upsizing stream crossings to pass larger storm flows; installing generators at critical facilities; removing or elevating flood prone structures; creating defensible space around vulnerable properties and other sustained actions than can lessen the impacts of natural hazards.

County residents, businesses, nonprofit groups, organizations that represent special needs citizens in Lincoln County, municipalities with knowledge of past disaster events, repetitive areas of repair after storms and floods, and locations of critical infrastructure that could be impacted by a disaster are strongly encouraged to become part of the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee and attend our kick-off meeting scheduled for April 30 at 6 p.m. in the LC911 Conference Room.

For more information, contact Director Tod Hartung at Lincoln County EMA, 207-882-7559, or thartung@lcc911.me.