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Additions made to county mitigation plan

Three new projects added to hazard mitigation plan including storm drain backflow preventers

WORLAND – A group of 14 city and county employees identified three potential additions to Washakie County’s plan in the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan at a meeting Monday afternoon.

The plan, driven by the 2000 Disaster Mitigation Act (DMA) plan, needs to be updated every five years to maintain grants and was last updated in 2011.

The three new actions to consider adding to the plan are: the Inte...