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Emergency Management Officials To Buckeye Lake Residents - Be Prepared For Dam Collapse

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More than 50 state and local emergency management officials met yesterday to prepare for a possible collapse of the Buckeye Lake dam. Officials began working up plans to alert area businesses and residents and move them to safety. Licking County Emergency Management Agency director Sean Grady says his agency is working with other emergency-response teams and first responders to be ready and engage in community outreach.

Grady says if the dam gives, people should listen for the two emergency sirens erected in the area last summer - at Sellers Point and Buckeye Lake. 

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And Grady says people living and working within the flood zone should have a bag prepacked with  important items.

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Grady also wants residents to sign up to receive emergency alerts on their cell phones. He says his county can sent those alerts to all land lines in the area. More than 3 thousand people would be in jeopardy if an earthen dam fails as predicted in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report.  The state has said it is still examining the report but will keep the lake at lower winter levels.
 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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