Local Mitigation Strategy Plan

Executive Summary (Excerpt. Full Document Available Below)

The Union County Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) details the continual work of the Union County LMS Working Group
(WG) over the past several years to develop the comprehensive planning process and an analysis on the risks posed
by natural disasters and their vulnerability, extent, and impact to those risks. After reviewing risks and vulnerabilities,
the greater community has agreed upon mitigation goals, objectives, and measures intended to reduce, or in some
cases, eliminate future losses due to these risks.

This local mitigation strategy seeks to accomplish the following:

• Identify and describe hazards to which Union County is vulnerable;
• Identify and assess the facilities, structures, and other assets within Union County that are most vulnerable to particular hazards;
• Set goals and objectives as a strategy to mitigate property against future losses;
• Based upon these goals and objectives, identify and prioritize mitigation projects that will take advantage of available funding and reduce future losses;
• Identify potential funding sources; and
• Promote hazard risk awareness and mitigation education.