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Emergency Management office awarded nearly $100,000 for flood‑mitigation equipment
Summary
Cayuga County’s Emergency Management Office said it received an award of close to $100,000 from the New York State Office of Homeland Security to buy pumps, variable messaging signs and a sandbagger for local flood response.
Cayuga County’s Emergency Management Office informed the Public Safety Committee that the county received nearly $100,000 in state flood‑mitigation equipment funding and has taken steps to improve radio interoperability among neighboring counties.
Riley from Emergency Management said the award from the New York State Office of Homeland Security will fund portable pumps, variable messaging signs and a sandbagger. The equipment will be assigned to the county for local use, replacing long-distance sourcing that previously required assets to come from as far away as Binghamton during flood events.
Riley also credited recent grants secured by the 9-1-1 office for tri-band mobile radios that increase interoperability with counties including Wayne and Tioga. Those radios were placed into apparatus and with deputy coordinators to improve multi-county communications in emergencies.
The office announced that Larry Deiger, the county fire coordinator, will retire March 1 after a long career in the fire service; a resolution to fill the position is forthcoming.
Committee members had no outstanding questions about the award; the emergency manager said the office would return with implementation details as needed.
