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Continue hydrological modeling. Local governments' planning and development efforts can benefit from understanding the changes in the way water moves through the landscape, especially as the community develops and seasonal precipitation amounts change.

Continue to incorporate Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into development regulations

Continue to participate in the Firewise program to increase knowledge and capacity to prepare for wildland fires around the utility plant

Continue partnerships with agencies, organizations and institutions of higher education that actively engage in resilience.

Continue promoting teleworking opportunities for local government staff and encouraging businesses to establish telework policies.

Continue to store water underground for use at a later date.

Convene a forum to conduct a joint assessment and planning strategy. Involve local water utilities, wastewater service providers, water managers and other partners to achieve a coordinated consideration of stormwater use and disposal. Develop local integrated water management plans based on joint assessment and planning strategies.

Coordinate across regional, state and federal agencies to fund, develop and apply appropriate hydrologic and hydraulic models into existing water management systems, flood control and drainage.

Coordinate among city, town and county government public works agencies, water utilities and other operators of water infrastructure to develop and maintain local and regional inventories of existing water infrastructure. Include potable water wellfields, treatment and distribution systems, wastewater treatment and collection infrastructure, and septic tanks and drain fields. Assess the potential for climate change impacts on each component under different climate change scenarios and develop adaptation strategies for affected systems.

Coordinate among transit agencies to advance regional transportation and transit resilience.

Coordinate education efforts about the best health practices during concurrent heat and smoke events.

Coordinate stormwater asset management with surrounding jurisdictions to improve drainage maintenance.

Coordinate the availabilty of wildfire apparatus and equipment types, quantity, and storage location in key areas

Coordinate with community members, transportation agencies and private entities to identify local and regional transportation, transit and active transportation corridors that are at-risk from climate change impacts.

Coordinate with local homeless services to ensure that emergency shelters are available during extreme heat events, poor air quality, severe weather events and other highly hazardous conditions.

Coordinate with neighboring jurisdictions on development activities and land use planning on a watershed level.

Coordinate with Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District and County and share information from the SWMP and Resilience Assessment.

Coordinate with other City departments to reduce off-site factors that may exacerbate risks to parks and recreation assets, such as stormwater management facilities in parks properties operated and maintained by Seattle Public Utilities.

Coordinate with regional transit providers to identify alternative routes and stops if normal infrastructure is damaged or closed as a result of extreme events.

Coordinate with regional transportation agencies to ensure redundancy of critical transportation routes to allow for continued access and movement in the event of an emergency