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Parks, Fair, and Facilities
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Prepare In A Year
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February - Create an Action Plan
- Tasks: Identify your hazards. Winter Storms, floods, power outages, earthquake, wildfire. Know the risks
- Stay or go? How do you decide to stay where you are or to leave? What do you need to stay? How would you go and where would you go?
- If we are separated, how to we reunite/communicate?
- Teach children how to call 911 and when to do that.
- Have emergency numbers posted clearly
- Have address posted so visitors, guests etc. know the address.
- Show all family members how to turn off water, electricity and propane.
- Fire extinguishers and training.
- Smoke detectors
- Proper insurance coverage
- Evacuation: Plan how and where to evacuate, half tank of gas, go bag, leave early rather than later
Family Emergency Plan Template
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Prepare in a Year - Registration
Sign up for Prepare in a Year! Beginning January 1, the first activity module will be posted and you'll receive a notification each month as updates or additional modules are added. Alternatively, you can check our Prepare in a Year website each month to see a new activity module. But, if you register, you'll be entered in a drawing for your participation in addition to receiving the updates.
Register for Prepare in a Year
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January - Communications Plan
- Tasks: Create a contact list including an out of the area contact and share with your family. Not electronic.
- Plan an alternative method of communication if cell phone is not an option
- Make sure all family members know how to ‘Mark themselves Safe’ through an agreed upon platform
- For more information, click on one of the links below.
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Set up Out of the Area Contacts
Learn how to become a HAM Radio Operator
Create a communications plan with your kids
Create a Family Communications Plan
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Shellfish
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Current Clallam County Recreational Shellfish Harvesting Closures
The following beaches in Clallam County are currently listed with the closure status in effect:
Closed to all species means clams (including geoduck), oysters, mussels and other invertebrates such as the moon snail. All areas are closed for the sport harvest of scallops. These closures do not apply to shrimp. Crabmeat is not known to contain biotoxins, but the guts can contain unsafe levels. To be safe, clean crab thoroughly and discard the guts (butter).
It is important to know the difference between butter clams and other species of clams. Butter clams have the ability to retain toxins for a very long time - up to a year or more. Areas may be closed for the sport harvest of butter clams when all other species are safe and open.
For more information about this closure, call the Marine Biotoxin Hotline at 1.800.562.5632, or visit the Department of Health’ s Marine Biotoxin Website. For additional information call Audrey Coyne with the Washington State Department of Health, Office of Shellfish and Water Protection at 360.236.3354.
These health-related closures are in addition to closures regulated by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fish and Wildlife closures can be found on their website. Their emergency regulation hotline is 1.866.880.5431
Water Quality
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Pollution Identification & Correction (PIC) Interactive Water Quality Dashboard
The Pollution Identification & Correction (PIC) Program uses this water quality data to help identify long-term pollution patterns, prioritize areas for further investigation, and measure progress in water quality improvement.