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Key Findings <br />Short-term, low-cost strategies include: <br />• Develop education and public outreach to engage adjacent landowners to improve slope <br />management practices. <br />• Continue low-cost mitigation options, such as maintenance of slide fences, ditches and <br />other drainage facilities. <br />• Provide a drainage improvement incentive, such as reduced permit fees from BNSF to <br />adjacent landowners (limited duration). <br />• Review landslide data through 2007 and develop landslide maps to be completed during <br />the fall 2013. Inventory can be used to develop detailed landslide hazard maps to assist <br />local agencies in the development of land use regulations on steep slopes. <br />Intermediate strategies include: <br />• Research and implement a landslide potential assessment model to inform decisions <br />between agencies and provide additional time for contingency planning; model validation <br />is targeted for the 2014-2015 rainy seasons. <br />• Design and construct up to six projects in high -priority landslide areas from 2013-2016 to <br />mitigate landslide problems and improve service reliability. <br />Long-term strategies include: <br />• Continue community education and public outreach. <br />• Develop a permit process for improvements to private residential land adjacent to and/or <br />above the track area, and identify a funding source or sources to implement <br />improvements. <br />• Explore solutions for long-term slide debris removal and restoration process, such as <br />beach nourishment. <br />• Optimize design of containment structures and evaluate effectiveness of stabilization <br />measures for shallow slope failures. <br />• Develop a management system to prioritize and implement slope stabilization projects. <br />• Consider acquisition of additional right-of-way or long-term maintenance/construction <br />easements on adjacent property in landslide -prone sections to improve opportunities to <br />implement best -suited mitigation measures. (Note that this long-term strategy would <br />require additional funding.) <br />• Explore justification for further public investment, recognizing that a significant increase <br />in capital investment will be required to significantly reduce landslide -related closures. <br />ii <br />