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2021 Multijurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Table 21-1. Alternatives to Mitigate the Dam Failure Hazard Personal-Scale Corporate-Scale Government-Scale  Manipulate the hazard:  None  Reduce exposure:  Relocate out of dam failure inundation areas  Reduce vulnerability:  Elevate home to appropriate levels  Build local capacity:  Learn about risk reduction for the dam failure hazard  Learn the evacuation routes for a dam failure event  Educate yourself on early warning systems and the dissemination of warnings  Manipulate the hazard:  Remove dams  Harden dams  Reduce exposure:  Replace earthen dams with hardened structures  Reduce vulnerability:  Flood-proof facilities within dam failure inundation areas  Build local capacity:  Educate employees on the probable impacts of a dam failure  Develop a continuity of operations plan  Manipulate the hazard:  Remove dams  Harden dams  Reduce exposure:  Replace earthen dams with hardened structures  Relocate critical facilities out of dam failure inundation areas  Consider open space land use in designated dam failure inundation areas  Reduce vulnerability:  Adopt higher floodplain standards in mapped dam failure inundation areas  Retrofit critical facilities within dam failure inundation areas  Build local capacity:  Map dam failure inundation areas  Enhance emergency operations plan to include a dam failure component  Institute monthly communications checks with dam operators  Inform the public on risk reduction techniques  Adopt real-estate disclosure requirements for the re-sale of property located within dam failure inundation areas  Consider the probable impacts of climate change in assessing the risk associated with the dam failure hazard  Establish early warning capability downstream of listed high hazard dams  Consider the residual risk associated with protection provided by dams in future land use decisions 21-2