LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen adopted a resolution Monday regarding adoption of the 2011 Androscoggin County Hazard Mitigation Plan.

The plan is necessary for developing a strategy to lessen the impacts of natural and man-made disasters and save resources, property and lives, according to the resolution.

“We have to get on board with it if we want to get (Federal Emergency Management Agency) money,” Town Manager Kristal Flagg said.

The town has already done work to follow through on mitigation goals,  including documenting where catch basins are and trying to keep them clean, she said.

Town and city officials, and emergency management directors of the 14 municipalities in the county are being asked to adopt the resolution and commit to mitigation goals and measures as presented in the plan.

For the past two years local emergency management agency directors, public works and road commission personnel have been working with the county and state emergency management staff and Androscoggin Valley Council of Government to complete revisions and updates to the federally required county hazard mitigation plan, according to a letter from Joanne Potvin, director of the Androscoggin Unified EMA.

The recently updated document, which is based on the County’s Hazard Risk and Vulnerability Analysis is required in the event that a municipality should decide to apply for federal hazard mitigation funds or already have a project in the works, she wrote.

The document is required to be updated every five years.

The revised plan has received “conditional” approval from FEMA.

Final approval of the plan is contingent on municipal authorities signing the resolution of adoption form.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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