Volcanic Hazard – Perception and Managementand evaluation of the management strategy.

Orting and Mount Rainier

Location and Scale

Tectonics creating hazards in the Cascade Range

Hazard Mapping

What’s the risk?

Perception?

"Fielding, the fire chief, said he has been frustrated in trying to educate valley residents on Rainier's danger. Town meetings have been called in Orting the past three years, but "turnout has been marginal to nil," he said." from http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vmor.html

Town site plan …

Hazard mapping?

New Retail Development based around Safeway Store

Orting High School – buses? Bridge4Kids? Walk?

New Housing on a Bluff

New housing on the flood plain

Good quality new housing near River Carbon

New housing … commuter suburb and outdoor leisure

Monitoring … sirens … walk … 30 minutes

Road down the valley??