With over 2 million residents, the County needed effective mitigation measures to adequately warn people of the potentially severe weather. The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program provided funds for the County to purchase, distribute and install National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radios to every school, hospital, and nursing care facility in the County, for a total of 860 radios. This project will ensure that adequate warning time be more available to residents in the County. The benefit of early warnings will be a reduction in both loss of life and the extent of injuries to persons in an impacted facility. The College Brook flows through property owned by the University of New Hampshire and through residential and commercial neighborhoods in the Town of Durham, and ultimately empties into Mill Pond.
High water resulting from heavy rains and snow melt inundates the College Brook area.
The culverts under Mill Road and Mill Pond Road were overwhelmed causing backup and flooding several properties. In 1997 and 1998, FEMA Region 1 partnered with the State of New Hampshire, the Town of Durham, and local residents to improve the drainage capacity of the two culverts. Because of this project, during heavy rain events, there has been no damage due to flooding. The City of Deer Park is located in southeast Texas, in close proximity to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. This area is subject to intense rainfall, local thunderstorms, storms extending over periods of several days, as well as torrential rainfall associated with hurricanes and other tropical disturbances.