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3 Implementing Resilience Indicators and Measures at the Community Level
Pages 15-20

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From page 15...
... In addition to representatives from the two pilot community partners, Cedar Rapids/Linn County, Iowa, and the region of Charleston, South Carolina, representatives from Talbot County, Maryland and San Francisco, California participated on the panel. The panelists included Sandi Fowler, Laura Cabiness, Clay Stamp, and Miriam Chion:  Sandi Fowler, assistant city manager for the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa has held positions in city government for nearly 25 years, working with neighborhood groups, citizen services, inter nal operations, and facility rebuilding from the 2008 flood.
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From page 16...
... Charleston opted over the next 10 years to install a deep tunnel drainage system, a 10-foot diameter tunnel buried 140 feet below the surface that captured storm water runoff during heavy rain events. Charleston is installing another drainage system using an initial $10 million from the U.S.
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From page 17...
... One challenge to development will be that nearly 60 percent of the growth in the region is concentrated in only 5 percent of the region's total area. Through the Regional Prosperity Consortium, ABAG works with community representatives from across the region to address equity and implementation of resilience strategies; part of this work aims to integrate resilience to natural disasters into a number of other economic and social initiatives in order to address housing vulnerability.
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From page 18...
... Because much of the infrastructure is privately held, there is a challenge in collecting data on the vulnerabilities. For example, being able to have better information on gas pipe infrastructure would help to predict future leaks or knowing about how water is supplied around a region would help to identify potential safe drinking water reservoirs following a major disaster.
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From page 19...
... There is a dollar value associated with businesses closing or people staying home from work due to floods, and it would be helpful to have cost/benefit ratios developed to help prioritize projects.
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  • flood insurance
  • affordable housing
  • rural county
  • building codes

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  • major disaster
  • storm water
  • prosperity consortium
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  • clay stamp
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  • southern division
  • hurricane hugo

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