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Emergency management warns of saturated soils, warns mitigation funding is less certain ahead of potential flooding
Summary
The county emergency manager briefed commissioners on high soil saturation and flood risk, LEPC purchases, sandbag inventory and concerns about reduced federal mitigation funding availability for future projects.
Andrew, the county emergency management coordinator, told the Codington County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 23 that persistent wet conditions this year have left soils highly saturated and raised concerns about next spring's flood risk.
Andrew said county and local partners have been meeting on pre-disaster mitigation planning, and he described coordination with towns such as Kranzburg about community storm shelters and contractor availability. He said Codington County maintains about 88,000 sandbags in…
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