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Table 7. Potential Strategies to Reduce Landslide Interruptions and Impacts. <br />Potential Strategies to Reduce Landslides <br />Strategies <br />Implementation Time <br />Complicating Factors <br />Benefit <br />Short-term <br />Intermediate <br />Long-term <br />Low <br />High <br />Low <br />Moderate <br />High <br />Conduct Education/ <br />Outreach (drainage <br />improvements/best <br />slope management <br />practices) <br />Ongoing— brochure <br />developed and <br />distributed; public <br />workshops scheduled <br />Land ownership (difficult <br />to ensure long-term <br />implementation); <br />permitting, funding <br />Potential to reduce <br />landslide initiation with <br />best slope management <br />practices <br />Implement Vegetation <br />Management Program <br />Specific site to be <br />identified and <br />recommendations <br />developed <br />Land ownership, limited <br />right of way, funding, <br />permitting <br />May reduce damage to <br />structures/stabilize <br />slopes over time <br />Improve Monitoring <br />Tools <br />Ongoing — validation <br />planned within one <br />to two years <br />Organizational <br />priorities/responsibilities <br />Does not prevent or reduce <br />landslides, but informs <br />parties of potential <br />landslide exposure <br />Explore Long -Term <br />Debris Disposal Plan <br />No current plan in <br />place <br />Permit modifications <br />needed; funding <br />Does not prevent or reduce <br />landslides, but has benefit <br />for salmon recovery efforts <br />Conduct Maintenance <br />and Monitoring <br />Measures <br />Currently <br />implemented by <br />BNSF <br />Lower cost than <br />capital <br />p projectspublic <br />Highly effective in reducing <br />risk exposure, but <br />does not reduce landslides <br />Construct Capital <br />Improvement Projects <br />(containment <br />structures/stabilization <br />projects/realignment <br />projects) <br />Ongoing — 6 <br />proposed locations <br />funded by WSDOT <br />grants (current <br />funding is <br />$16.1 million) <br />Requires obtaining <br />funding, planning <br />(prioritization), <br />designing, <br />permitting, <br />construction <br />Funding, prioritization of <br />projects, organizational <br />priorities/responsibilities, <br />limited right-of-way <br />Reaches goal of long - <br />term stabilization of <br />slopes and/or <br />prevention of <br />landslides in corridor <br />Acquire Additional <br />Right of Way in <br />Landslide -Prone <br />Sections <br />Funding, land <br />ownership <br />Funding, prioritization of <br />areas needed; <br />organizational <br />priorities/responsibility <br />Does not prevent or reduce <br />landslides, but provides <br />opportunity for best slope <br />management practices <br />Develop Public- <br />Domain Inventory and <br />Implement Landslide <br />Management Program <br />Information gathered <br />for action plan could <br />be used as starting <br />point for program <br />Funding, land ownership, <br />organizational <br />priorities/responsibility <br />Does not prevent or reduce <br />landslides, but guides <br />capital projects; can be used <br />to justify further public <br />investment <br />p. 24 <br />