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Erie reviews draft Resilience Action Plan; students detail air quality, heat, flooding and equity priorities
Summary
CU Boulder students and town sustainability staff presented Erie's draft Resilience Action Plan, highlighting air‑quality exceedances, heat and drought projections, flood and wildfire risk, social vulnerability in Central Erie, and plans for community engagement and next steps toward implementation.
Erie’s sustainability team and a CU Boulder Masters of the Environment capstone team presented the town’s first draft Resilience Action Plan on Oct. 7, outlining hazards, vulnerabilities and draft strategies for implementation.
Erica Thorley, sustainability manager, and the student team summarized a vulnerability assessment that identified ground‑level ozone and particulate matter as the region’s major air pollutants, indoor radon as a local health concern, increasing drought risk, rising numbers of extreme‑heat days and residual flood and wildfire risks from past events such as the Front Range floods of 2013. The team…
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