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Hennepin County Hazard Mitigation Risk/Vulnerability . <br /> 2. Vulnerabilities <br /> • Water utility — supplies Minneapolis and 7 other communities <br /> • No interconnect with St. Paul <br /> • No way to store many days worth of water <br /> • Waterworks located on the Mississippi where spills are <br /> common <br /> a Vulnerable populations <br /> • Elderly, impaired and disadvantaged <br /> G Concentrated in high rises <br /> ■ Possibility of rapid spread of disease <br /> • Immigrant population <br /> • Tuberculosis in recent immigrants <br /> • Difficulty communicating emergency <br /> information to non-English speaking <br /> populations <br /> O Infrastructure <br /> • Major telephone switching facility downtown <br /> • Unknown what is below downtown streets <br /> • Computer systems could be open to attack <br /> • Some storm sewers cannot handle significant rainfall <br /> • Transportation <br /> • Freeways <br /> • In path of airport <br /> • Train switching yard in NE Minneapolis <br /> • Light rail <br /> • University of Minnesota <br /> • Potential for volatile population <br /> • Unknown chemicals on campus <br /> • Politically sensitive, activities <br /> • Large venues <br /> o HHH Metrodome <br /> o Target Center <br /> o Convention Center <br /> o Many large hotels <br /> • 302 facilities (123) see map <br /> 5 <br /> n.%v W.—.l Ricl_VnlnPrwhility AccvicemPnt A- <br />