Call for Comments: Resilience Vulnerability Asessments
As you may have heard, St. George and South Thomaston are working on a joint Community Resilience Plan—a road map for our towns to mitigate and prepare for extreme weather, washouts, sea level rise, changing ocean conditions, energy affordability, and other resilience issues.
The Resilience Committee is asking for public review of four technical vulnerability assessments (VAs):
Infrastructure Vulnerability Asessment
Economic Vulnerability Assessment
Social Vulnerability Assessment
Public Health Vulnerability Assessment
After identifying risks in each area, the second part of the plan process is to investigate and prioritize strategies to address them.
This plan also includes a greenhouse gas inventory, which measures the local emissions generated by everyday activities, including heating and powering buildings, driving vehicles, and managing waste. An emissions inventory helps reveal where energy use is highest and where the greatest opportunities for savings and efficiency may exist.
Please provide any comments to Resilience Committee Chair, Eva Birk at [email protected] by Tuesday, September 8th. In particular, we would like information and/or photos of road locations where residents have experienced frequent flooding or washouts that the reports do not already capture.
This work is funded through a Community Action Grant from the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future.
Community Resilience Committee Members:
- Eva Birk (Chair)
- Neil Cambridge
- Kathleen Florence
- Nancy Goslin
- Sally Merchant
- Denise Rzeznikiewicz
- Michael Elliot
- Theo Pratt
Community Resilience Committee Associate Members:
- Wes Pratt