Building Disaster Resistant Neighborhoods

Beginning in the winter of 2004 the Capital Area Chapter's Disaster Resistant Neighborhood initiative moved into a new area of disaster mitigation.

In an ongoing effort to make homes throughout the Greater Frenchtown Front Porch community as flood proof as possible. The Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross was provided with $45,000 in Local Mitigation Strategy Funding from Leon County to provide mini-grants to low-income owner occupied residents to have Sewer Backflow Valves installed. As part of the communities powerful Disaster Resistant Neighborhood initiative 29 homes were made flood resistant.

	Within days of a homeowner being qualified for a disaster mitigation mini-grant a local plumbing contractor arrived to begin the installation of a SEWER BACKFLOW VALVE.
	The installation involved removing a portion of the existing sewer line and replacing it with a SEWER BACKFLOW VALVE.
	From start to finish the installation took about four (4) hours.