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Arlington outlines upgraded flood‑monitoring, buyout and alert plans after historic events
Summary
City public‑works and emergency‑management staff told council they are expanding flood monitoring and pre‑identified buyouts, tightening freeboard and floodplain standards, and pursuing IPAWS mobile alerts while continuing siren maintenance and EOC training.
Assistant Director of Public Works Amy Cannon told the Arlington City Council that the city is shifting flood work from reaction to prevention, detailing a series of watershed studies, buyouts and code changes intended to reduce risk to homes and infrastructure.
Cannon reviewed major local flood events, including the May 1989 run of storms that forced roughly 400 evacuations and Tropical Storm Hermine in 2010, and said those events shaped the city's ‘‘worst‑first’’ approach to stormwater planning. She said staff have pre‑identified roughly 463 structures as candidates for voluntary buyouts, have completed prior buyouts along Johnson and Rush creeks, and have invested in mitigation projects the city counts at about $200 million to date. Cannon said additional…
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