Luzerne County’s new hazard mitigation plan details lurking potential dangers

West Pittston residents are seen evacuating their Susquehanna Avenue homes as flood waters rose in January 2018. Flooding, winter weather, drought and crop failure,landslides, wildfires, nuclear and hazardous material releases, earthquakes, land subsidence, dam failure and radon are among the possible events discussed in Luzerne County’s latest hazard mitigation plan, to be discussed by County Council members this evening.

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