Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)
The Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) outlines the County’s roles and responsibilities during any natural, technological, or man-made disaster and major emergencies.
Threat Incident Management Plan
A plan that notifies, evacuates, and accounts for the employees and public that occupy the 47 County-maintained facilities. NCC employees comprise the evacuation teams in the 6 major facilities and participate in annual exercises to test the plan. This Plan is continually revised and distributed to 40 Dept./Office representatives.
Hazardous Materials Response Plan
Outlines the efforts of the fire service, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, emergency medical services, police jurisdictions and non-governmental agencies to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies in New Castle County. This plan is continually updated and revised in cooperation with the New Castle County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC).
Delaware City Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) Plan
Outlines the responsbilities of the chemical facilites (located on Route 9 near Delaware City) during an incident at one of the 8 plants in that complex. Also delineates responsbilities for outside response agencies.
Weather Monitoring
Emergency Management monitors approximately 30 weather storms that threaten New Castle County annually. Our new weather satellite computer provides up-to-date forecast and radar maps.
State Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program
New Castle County Office of Emergency Management is currently assisting in the update of the Delaware Radiological Emergency Response Plan. New Castle County participated in the REP Full-Scale Federally Evaluated Exercise in May 2008 with no deficiencies or issues. The next federally graded exercise is scheduled for 2010.
Delaware Emergency Operations Plan (DEOP)
The New Castle County Office of Emergency Management contributes and supports the DEOP planning process in cooperation with DEMA.
State of Delaware Hazard Mitigation Plan
New Castle County Office of Emergency Management assisted with collecting data from 12 municipalities and 8 County Departments for a statewide plan identifying mitigation projects to help reduce the effects of disasters in the County. Revision of this plan will be complete in late 2009.
National Incident Management System (NIMS) Compliance
The New Castle County Office of Emergency Management ensures that the County is National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant. This is accomplished through the delivery of NIMS and Incident Command System (ICS) training to hundreds of County emergency responders, development and participation in numerous exercises, reliance on ICS to manage incidents, and continued maintenance and management of emergency management systems and equipment. For more information on NIMS go to:
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/New Castle County Hazard Mitigation Plan
The 2005 New Castle County All Hazard Mitigation Plan can be found here:
This is a mandatory Plan which was developed by New Castle County in 2005. The plan assessed the potential hazards which could occur within the county and detailed a list of “Mitigation Actions” that could be taken to prepare our county for these possible hazards. The plan must be updated every five years. Therefore, this year we are reviewing the plan by updating our risk assessment of potential hazards, and by updating our list of mitigation actions. We update this list by documenting any progress that has been made towards completing these actions, and any new actions which should be taken and are not in the plan.