Question

What are two examples of hazard mitigation activities in your own community? What are some proactive measures that your community is doing to minimize risks?

Answer 1

Basically hazard mitigation is nothing but action plan taken to reduce the long term risk to life as well properties from any hazards.

Below are the few example and proactive measure that community is doing to minimize risks.

• Release of unwanted pollutants to lakes from industries: since our city is near to industrial estate, many industries released the unwanted pollutants from industries caused the lake water not suitable for animal drinking, spoiled the ground water quality leads to diseases to community people which were a hazard to our society.

Mitigation plan: Local government and community with the help of industries planned to stop the release of pollutants to lake and initiated a task to clean the lake with the use of bio reactors and aerators which can able to clean the lake water thereby enriched the ground water quality.

• Release of water from the dams: Storage of more water in the dams may leads to flood during heavy rain which will become threat to many families, animals and loss of property.

Mitigation plan: government have taken initiative to release the quantified amount water from dams for the agriculture purpose or to fill the village lakes which have improved ground water.

• Leakage of gas pipelines: buried metal gas pipe lines may leak after many years of installation due to corrosion leads to fire hazards.

mitigation plan: government have taken measures to apply the protective layer on the metal pipes to avoid from the corrosion thereby avoids the chances of gas leakages.

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