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- Pinal County has a Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
- You can prepare your own Emergency Evacuation Plan to suit your family & pets, school, neighborhood, or place of business.
- Earth fissures are tension cracks that open as the result of subsidence due to severe overdrafts (i.e., pumping) of groundwater. As the ground slowly settles, cracks form at depth and propagate towards the surface, hundreds of feet above. Individual fissures range in length from hundreds of feet to several miles, and from less than an inch to several feet wide. Rainstorms can erode fissure walls rapidly causing them to widen and lengthen suddenly, and dangerously, to form gullies 5 to 15 feet wide and tens of feet deep.
- Pinal County has an Adopt A Highway Program.
- Pinal County does not provide utility services to the public. For more information regarding local services, check out the Related Links page.
- By year end 2010, there were 1,017.81 miles of paved roads and 1,049.67 miles of gravel roads being maintained by Pinal County Public Works. That is a total of 2,067.48 miles of road that are maintained. If you stretched those miles out, you would be able to drive almost to Washington DC! That's a lot of road miles to maintain.
- None of the property taxes paid to the county are used to maintain the roads. Sales tax on vehicle fuel is earmarked for the Highway User Revenue Fund (HURF) and used toward road improvements and maintenance.
- Links to other government agencies can be found on the Public Works Related Links page.
Facts about flooding:
- Flooding is the most common and widespread natural disaster occurring in all 50 states.
- 90% of all U.S. natural disasters that receive a Presidential declaration involve flooding.
- A home that is located in a 100-year floodplain has a 26% chance of being flooded during a 30yr mortgage.
- 25% of all flood insurance claims are for properties not located in a high risk area as shown on the FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps.
- Arizona has had over 3,940 flood losses totaling over $33.2 million in insurance claims since 1978.
- In the United States, floods kill approximately 140 people each year and cause about $6 billion in property damage.
- Eighty percent of flood deaths occur when people drive into water or simply walk into moving water.
- Even 6 inches of fast-moving flood waters can knock you off your feet, and a depth of 2 feet will float you car! NEVER try to walk, swim, or drive through such swift water. If you come across flood waters, STOP! TURN AROUND AND GO ANOTHER WAY! For more info on flooding or other disaster planning, go to www.ready.gov/america/beinformed .
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