The Emergency Planning for Indian Point website was created in response to the heightened level of alert created by the September 11 attacks and the concern over nuclear power plants in our region.

The first thing you will want to know is whether you live in the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone around the plant and to which Emergency Response Planning Area you belong to. 
Click here to find out if you live in the 10-mile radius.Link to Indian Point Zone Locator Map

If you do live in this emergency planning zone, you should read the county's booklet.  This booklet is mailed to each household in the 10-mile zone:

The Community Emergency Planning for Indian Point: A Guide for You and Your Family 2006 (pdf)
- Cover (pdf)
- Step By Step Emergency Planning (pdf)
- Map (pdf)

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¡En Espanol! "La Guía de Planificación de Emergencias para Indian Point (2006)" *pdf
-Cover *pdf
-Planificacion de Emergencias Pasa a Pasa  *pdf 
-Map *pdf

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Sirens are located in the 10-mile zone surrounding Indian Point and are sounded in the event of an emergency.  To see and hear what an Indian Point siren sounds like, click here ( Windows Media Player, 9 or above required). For more information on sirens, click here.

Potassium Iodide or KI can be helpful in preventing thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear accident that releases radioactive iodine into the environment. It does not protect any part of the body other than the thyroid. 

Emergency Planning for Indian Point website
is maintained by the County Executive's 
Office of Communications
The County of Westchester
148 Martine Ave.
White Plains, New York 10601

A message from
Andrew J. Spano
Westchester County Executive:
As most of you know by now, my position on Indian Point is that the plant should be closed. My reasoning is simple: as the person in charge of our Emergency Response Plan and your safety, I cannot guarantee that in a fast-breaking radioactive incident such as a terrorist attack, that everyone would be protected. While our Emergency Response Plan would work effectively and efficiently in other scenarios, I remain concerned about a fast-breaking scenario. And no one can convince me that a fast-breaking scenario cannot happen.

However, before we can contemplate a county without Indian Point, we must find the answers to some tough questions:

1. What would it cost to take over Indian Point?

2. What would it cost to replace the nuclear reactors with gas-burning generators?

3. How could this best be accomplished?

4. What effect would this have on the tax base of local municipalities and school districts?

5. How would this affect energy rates?

6. How would the energy provided now be replaced?

To find these answers, the county recently hired the firm, Levitan & Associates, Inc., a nationally known energy consultant firm that has successfully tackled complex power and fuel assignments throughout the northeast over the past 15 years. We would all feel safer if Indian Point were closed. But there are many, many questions -- economic, technological, legal and others -- that need to be answered before we can determine whether it is feasible to do so.