ESF #1 Transportation

Traffic Jam

Emergency Support Function (ESF) #1 Transportation helps Lincoln County manage their transportation infrastructure systems in response to and recovery from emergency/ disasters.  

Lincoln County Highway Department, with the assistance of support agencies, provides transportation incident management, including the following activities:

  1. Managing and monitoring of responsible roadways.
  2. Report status of and damage to the transportation system and infrastructure as a result of an incident or event.
  3. Identify temporary alternative transportation solutions that can be implemented when systems or infrastructure are damaged, unavailable, or overwhelmed.
  4. Coordinate and support prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities among transportation stakeholders to include planning, training and exercises.
  5. Coordinate the restoration and recovery of the transportation systems and infrastructure.

Planning that includes the whole community helps to build a resilient community.  Have a comment on the emergency plans or want to be a part of the planning group?  Send feedback/ information september.murphy [at] co.lincoln.wi.us (subject: Lincoln%20County%20Emergency%20Plan%20ESF%201%20Feedback) (here.)