Work with Western Mass Electric Company to Triangle & East Pleasant Streets facilitate the underground Effective. Some burial of lines Determine areas of repetitive placement of new utility Thunderstorms completed with MassWorks grant. Spring Street outages to prioritize in general and existing / Severe Wind New developments are required to underground placement. utility lines in locations place utility lines underground. Areas of new where repetitive outages development occur (as applicable). Include maximum street Somewhat effective. Regulations are Update street grade standards in grade standards in Floods Town wide already there but have not been subdivision regulations. subdivision regulations. updated. Determine if existing Effective. Police station (EOC) generators at shelters are All hazards Town wide generator is due to be replaced. But None. effective, replace if not all shelters are regional. effective. Floods Participate in the creation of Not effective. No regional debris a Regional Debris Thunderstorms Town wide management plan was developed. Delete Management Plan. FEMA has developed agreements. / Severe Wind Evaluate critical facilities to Delete. Retrofitting critical determine if they are Earthquakes Town wide Not effective. No action taken. facilities to current seismic code earthquake resistant. is not cost effective. Increase enforcement of Snowstorms restrictions prohibiting Not effective. Complaint-driven Delete. Difficult to enforce, and Town wide residents from plowing strategy. not a big problem. Floods snow into the road.
Work with Western Mass Electric Company to facilitate the underground placement of new utility in general and existing utility lines in locations where repetitive outages occur (as applicable). Thunderstorms / Severe Wind Triangle & East Pleasant Streets Spring Street Areas of new development Effective. Some burial of lines completed with MassWorks grant. New developments are required to place utility lines underground. Determine areas of repetitive outages to prioritize underground placement. Include maximum street grade standards in subdivision regulations. Floods Town wide Somewhat effective. Regulations are already there but have not been updated. Update street grade standards in subdivision regulations. Determine if existing generators at shelters are effective, replace if not effective. All hazards Town wide Effective. Police station (EOC) generator is due to be replaced. But all shelters are regional. None. Participate in the creation of a Regional Debris Management Plan. Floods Thunderstorms / Severe Wind Town wide Not effective. No regional debris management plan was developed. FEMA has developed agreements. Delete Evaluate critical facilities to determine if they are earthquake resistant. Earthquakes Town wide Not effective. No action taken. Delete. Retrofitting critical facilities to current seismic code is not cost effective. Increase enforcement of restrictions prohibiting residents from plowing snow into the road. Snowstorms Floods Town wide Not effective. Complaint-driven strategy. Delete. Difficult to enforce, and not a big problem.
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