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Dam exercise scheduled for May 2017

County Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon is working to provide a five-step process to prepare a plan in the event the dam at Boysen Reservoir breaks. The first step of the process is an informative seminar beginning at 2 p.m. June 13 at the government annex building.

The coming months will see workshops and tabletop exercises as part of the plan’s creation, but a full-scale exercise in the community is not until May of 2017.

The community is encouraged to participate in the process. Gordon emphasized he has the utmost confidence in the dam and the Bureau of Reclamation, and doesn’t want to scare people, but having a plan will help in the event of a dam break.

 

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