Disaster Preparedness

Flood / Slide

Preparing

Inspect your property and become aware of how water flows across it. This may change because of new adjacent home construction or road work. You should take the initiative to install pipe, ditches, or other appropriate measures to protect your home from storm runoff, and also to shepherd the water so that it does not threaten neighbors. For example, if ditch water from a road empties onto your lot, you may need to install piping to conduct this water through your lot to a safe drainage point.

Protect your house with well-engineered retaining walls, with adequate drain pipe behind them.

Responding

Monitor your property during heavy rains.

If you detect incipient earth movement, place plastic sheeting over the area.