Cloudburst Management Plan - Climate Change Adaptation

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20 7 Emergency Response Plan The high-intensity rain of 2 July 2011 showed that there is a need to prepare the city for similar incidents in the future. When the projects contained in the Cloudburst Management Plan are implemented, the city will be much better prepared to handle extreme rainfall events. A number of years will elapse, however, before the initiatives and projects stipulated by the Cloudburst Management Plan will be implemented throughout the city. There is a need, therefore, to have an emergency response plan in place to mitigate the worst damage from an extreme event until the city’s resilience to extreme weather events has been secured. Therefore, a plan of action has been made to mitigate pluvial flooding. The plan details those areas especially at risk from pluvial flooding together with buildings and facilities which are particularly important to protect. These include, for example, critical institutions such as hospitals. To reduce the risk of pluvial flood damage to critical institutions, municipal emergency response units have been significantly consolidated in 2011 and 2012. Pumping capacity has been increased and collaboration with neighbouring emergency response units has been intensified. As the initiatives of the Cloudburst Management Plan are being implemented in various parts of the city, the need for emergency response will also be reduced. It will, however, still be necessary to retain an element of emergency response, even after the Cloudburst Management Plan has been fully implemented, as the city cannot be protected from all imaginable incidents (see section 4 about determining the level of protection against flooding). Retaining an emergency response plan after the Cloudburst Management Plan has been fully implemented means that the city will be adequately prepared when striving to mitigate the consequences of future extreme rainfall events.
8 21 Position in Relation to Other Planning Activities The Cloudburst Management Plan is not per se legally binding – neither for property owners, the utility company, nor the City Administration. To have an effect, the contents of the Cloudburst Management Plan needs incorporating into the Administration’s general planning process: primarily the Municipal Master Plan, sectoral plans (Waste water Plan) and local master plans. Furthermore, urban renewal plans and local neighbourhood facelift schemes should incorporate the Cloudburst Management Plan into their drafting. Finally, and depending on the wording of the notified amendments, it might be necessary for the Plan with its specifications to e.g. risk dimensioning to be adopted by the Board of Directors of Københavns Energi.
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