The Morgan County Drainage Board on Dec. 1 accepted an amended incident and emergency action plan for the Martinsville levee that spells out notification steps and actions to take in the event of floods, earthquakes or construction-related incidents.

Staff explained the document organizes who to notify and the steps each party must take during particular incidents and noted the south levee was recently turned over to the city. "This is the steps that are required for a particular incident," a staff member said, describing the flowchart-style response and the coordinator role.

The board recorded that the operations and maintenance manual — a larger document of about 250 pages — remains a separate item for future adoption. The plan specifies that calls will flow to a designated city coordinator (identified in the plan as MacDon) and that the county's monitoring station at Blue Bluff will trigger action at specified gauge levels.

A motion to accept the amended incident and emergency action plan was made and seconded; the board approved the motion by voice vote.

Board members said they expect staff and city partners to follow the plan's notification steps during future incidents and to bring the full operations and maintenance manual to the board for later adoption.