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Step 6a: Identify secondary hazard risk consideration sites and key environmental resource sites.
The purpose of this analysis is to identify locations where there is potential for secondary environmental impacts from natural hazards and to target vulnerable locations for hazard mitigation activities. Secondary impacts occur when natural hazard events create new hazards such as toxic releases or hazardous spills. Identify key sites in your community where hazardous or toxic materials exist.
Step 6b: Identify intersections of secondary risk sites, environmentally sensitive areas, and natural hazard risk consideration areas.
To further target areas for potential hazard mitigation activities, you should identify secondary risk sites that are located in high natural hazard risk areas. Overlay the environmental sites with the hazard risk consideration areas.
Step 6c: Identify key environmental resource locations and their proximity to secondary risk sites.
To prioritize secondary risk sites for potential hazard mitigation, you should identify significant environmental resource locations, particularly those that would be sensitive to secondary hazard impacts. You will want to use the proximity of these environmentally sensitive locations to the secondary risk sites to determine the overall risks from these facilities.
Step 6d: Conduct vulnerability analysis on priority secondary risk sites as critical facilities.
Based on the outcome of the previous step, you should be able to identify environmental hazard sites that are at risk for impacts from natural hazard events. Target these sites as partners in your hazard mitigation activities and add those sites to your critical facilities lists. If possible, conduct detailed assessments of vulnerability on these structures. |  |  |
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