The 2018 Dickinson County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (M-J HMP) is developed as an updated document to the County’s 2013 M-J HMP assist in making the planning area less susceptible to these hazards. Dickinson County received a Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) grant from FEMA through Iowa Homeland Security Emergency Management to assist in the updating of this plan. The planning area includes the following local governments that participated in the planning process: Dickinson County (Rural Unincorporated), Arnolds Park, Lake Park, Milford, Okoboji, Orleans, Spirit Lake, Superior, Terril, Wahpeton, West Okoboji, Iowa Great Lakes Sanitary District and Spirit Lake School District.

The purpose of this document and policy is to establish thresholds and emergency rules for boat speed on the lakes of Dickinson County during high water events.