By Dan Bechtold
Editor
Plans are in the works for the new Tripp County disaster mitigation plan.
The second meeting to work on the plan was held June 3 at the Tripp County Courthouse with John Clem of District III Planning of Yankton moderating the meeting.
The focus of the meeting was to decide what should be included in the new plan.
The current plan expires in June. The new plan will be effective for five years.
Plans for Tripp County, Colome, Winner and Witten were discussed.
The suggestions for Tripp County are to contact the state floodplain coordinator for more National Flood Insurance Program information.
It was suggested the county continue proactive policies regarding wildfire prevention including enforcing burn bans as conditions warrant and become registered and participate in the storm ready community program. This is a program that will send a message to a person’s computer or smartphone as a text or e-mail. The city of Winner plans to use the system to alert people of snow alerts, water shutoff, power outage and severe weather. Persons need to come to the city office to sign up for this service.
For Winner, proposed actions to be written into the plan are contact the state floodplain coordinator for NFIP training, install two miles of new electrical feeder line, make improvements along Dog Ear Creek, clean out sewage lagoon ditch, continued enforcement of National Building Code standards.
The suggestions for Colome in the mitigation plan include contact the state floodplain coordinator for NFIP training and look into the StormReady program.
Actions in Witten include looking into providing storm shelters in the town.
Clem explained he will write a first draft of the plan prior to the next meeting.
The next disaster mitigation planning meeting will be held at noon July 8 at the courthouse meeting room.
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