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Christian County Seeks Input On Natural Hazards

This image shows flooding in a park in Ozark.
Christian County Emergency Management
This image shows flooding in a park in Ozark.
This image shows flooding in a park in Ozark.
Credit Christian County Emergency Management
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Christian County Emergency Management
This image shows flooding in a park in Ozark.

  Christian County officials want to hear from citizens about how natural hazards affect them.  According to the Southwest Missouri Council of Governments, that feedback will be used to update the county’s Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan.

 

Since November of 2003, any county in Missouri declared to bea federal disaster area is required to have an approved Hazard Mitigation Plan to be eligible for specific grant funding. Funds can be used on projects that can prevent or reduce loss from future disasters.  They money can also go toward finding long-term solutions to a problem.

 

The public survey is online at www.smcog.org.

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Bailey began working for KSMU as a photography intern in October of 2017. She also works as a photographer with Missouri State University Photographic Services and as both a photographer and senior reporter with The Standard, Missouri State’s student newspaper. Previously, she has interned with the Snohomish County Tribune, the Sullivan Independent News and Babe Ruth League. Once she graduates in December of 2018, she hopes to work as a photojournalist — whether that means freelancing or with a newspaper.