Help New Bedford to become more climate resilient
New Bedford is updating its Hazard Mitigation Approach and is on the lookout for public enter and opinions.
The HMP is up-to-date just about every five years and is demanded by the Federal Emergency Administration Company in purchase to be qualified for hundreds of thousands in federal grants, and our climate and its impacts on our town have transformed in the past five decades for guaranteed.
Historically, the HMP has bundled widespread temperature hazards to our coastal neighborhood, these as hurricanes, windstorms and noreasters. Now, for the initial time, we are together with extreme heat, sea degree rise, pandemics, and hefty precipitation. Additionally, we are which includes secondary dangers that these weather situations convey, these types of as vector-borne conditions carried by insects that we now see in increased quantities yr-spherical.
The city is searching to listen to far more about inhabitants worries and what they see in their neighborhoods. We are also hoping to study from all those who have seasoned these impacts in other spots, like people who have occur to New Bedford from other climates where by the activities that are newer to us were widespread occurrences.
The city is operating to equitably reach all communities via community-centered organizations, social media, and on community transit, as properly as regular neighborhood conferences.
The packed New Bedford Artwork Museum presentation by expert panelists and The New Bedford Light on Feb. 28 exhibits the overpowering desire in local weather transform in New Bedford and implies that we have more voices to listen to from. We hope that far more neighborhood customers will acquire the time to fill out this HMP study, available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The New Bedford HMP will use this details to examine critical infrastructure and providers, and discover techniques we can make our city a much more resilient spot to reside, perform, and increase a family.
For additional info or to participate in the survey, stop by our HMP Tile on the NB Resilient Dashboard.
Michele Paul is the director of resilience and environmental stewardship for the metropolis of New Bedford.
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