VSF 03.03.01: Levee Inspection Team Member - Revision history

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Summary

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	=== Summary ===		=== Summary ===
	[[File:2025.11.14.UFSWQD Training.McCabe (4).jpg\|thumb\|''A NET volunteer learns about levee inspection from the Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District.'']]		[[File:2025.11.14.UFSWQD Training.McCabe (4).jpg\|thumb\|''A NET volunteer learns about levee inspection from the Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District. Photo by Karlene McCabe, November 14 2025.'']]
	Support the safety and integrity of local levees by conducting routine visual inspections using provided go-kits and reporting findings. Inspections and maintenance of the levee system promotes levee integrity in the larger effort to protect lives and property. Levee failure during a flood can cause [[wikipedia:1948_Columbia_River_flood\|catastrophic damage]]. These inspections are a frontline prevention measure. Levee inspection volunteers contribute to:		Support the safety and integrity of local levees by conducting routine visual inspections using provided go-kits and reporting findings. Inspections and maintenance of the levee system promotes levee integrity in the larger effort to protect lives and property. Levee failure during a flood can cause [[wikipedia:1948_Columbia_River_flood\|catastrophic damage]]. These inspections are a frontline prevention measure. Levee inspection volunteers contribute to:

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Summary

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	=== Summary ===		=== Summary ===
			[[File:2025.11.14.UFSWQD Training.McCabe (4).jpg\|thumb\|''A NET volunteer learns about levee inspection from the Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District.'']]
	Support the safety and integrity of local levees by conducting routine visual inspections using provided go-kits and reporting findings. Inspections and maintenance of the levee system promotes levee integrity in the larger effort to protect lives and property. Levee failure during a flood can cause [[wikipedia:1948_Columbia_River_flood\|catastrophic damage]]. These inspections are a frontline prevention measure. Levee inspection volunteers contribute to:		Support the safety and integrity of local levees by conducting routine visual inspections using provided go-kits and reporting findings. Inspections and maintenance of the levee system promotes levee integrity in the larger effort to protect lives and property. Levee failure during a flood can cause [[wikipedia:1948_Columbia_River_flood\|catastrophic damage]]. These inspections are a frontline prevention measure. Levee inspection volunteers contribute to:

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Responsibilities

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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Forms'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Forms'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form		\| style="padding: 10px" \|[[Media:2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form.pdf\|2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form]]
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Updated'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Updated'''

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Training for VSF 03.03.01: Levee Inspection Team Member

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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Forms'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Forms'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|✍️ Levee ~~Inspection~~ Form		\| style="padding: 10px" \|2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Updated'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Updated'''

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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Physical Requirements'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Physical Requirements'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|✍️ Volunteers must travel along unpaved inspection routes [approx distance or shift duration?], often in rough weather. They should carry a personal daypack.		\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|✍️ Volunteers must travel along unpaved inspection routes [approx distance or shift duration?], often in rough weather. They should carry a personal daypack. Possible exposure to variable and/or extreme weather conditions. Possible, though unlikely, exposure to water-borne pathogens found in floodwater.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Task Book'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Task Book'''

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VSF VSF 03.03.01: Levee Inspection Team Member Knowledge Base

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	\|[[Media:2025.10.11.Levee Monitoring Guide & UFSWQD Patrol Maps.pdf\|Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines (UFSWQD Flood Emergency Action Plan, Appendix M, 2016)]]		\|[[Media:2025.10.11.Levee Monitoring Guide & UFSWQD Patrol Maps.pdf\|Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines (UFSWQD Flood Emergency Action Plan, Appendix M, 2016)]]
	\|Establishes a set of “Best Practices” based on field-tested techniques used by levee maintaining agencies, their engineers, flood fight specialists, and levee inspectors to mark and monitor a levee threat.		\|Establishes a set of “Best Practices” based on field-tested techniques used by levee maintaining agencies, their engineers, flood fight specialists, and levee inspectors to mark and monitor a levee threat.
	\|✍️		\|State of California Department of Water Resources and [https://urbanfloodsafetyor.gov/about-us/ The Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District]
	\|✍️		\|2012.04.__ & 2016.__.__
	\|}		\|}

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	\|[[Media:2025.10.11.Levee Monitoring Guide & UFSWQD Patrol Maps.pdf\|Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines (UFSWQD Flood Emergency Action Plan, Appendix M, 2016)]]		\|[[Media:2025.10.11.Levee Monitoring Guide & UFSWQD Patrol Maps.pdf\|Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines (UFSWQD Flood Emergency Action Plan, Appendix M, 2016)]]
	\|✍️		\|Establishes a set of “Best Practices” based on field-tested techniques used by levee maintaining agencies, their engineers, flood fight specialists, and levee inspectors to mark and monitor a levee threat.
	\|✍️		\|✍️
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	\|}		\|}

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	!<big>Publish Date</big>		!<big>Publish Date</big>
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	\|Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines (UFSWQD Flood Emergency Action Plan, Appendix M, 2016)		\|[[Media:2025.10.11.Levee Monitoring Guide & UFSWQD Patrol Maps.pdf\|Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines (UFSWQD Flood Emergency Action Plan, Appendix M, 2016)]]
	\|✍️		\|✍️
	\|✍️		\|✍️
	\|✍️		\|✍️
	\|}		\|}

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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Currency'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Currency'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|Required to complete a [[Background Checks\|Criminal Background Check]] at PBEM's expense every three years.		\| style="padding: 10px" \|Required to complete a [[Background Checks\|Criminal Background Check]] at PBEM's expense every three years.
	✍️ Completion of a training refresher at the start of each rainy season with UFSWQD.		Completion of a training refresher at the start of each rainy season with UFSWQD.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Physical Requirements'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Physical Requirements'''

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	\|style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px"\|'''Position ID'''		\|style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px"\|'''Position ID'''
	\|style="text-align: center; background: #13135a; color: white"\|<big>'''VSF 03.03.01: Levee Inspection Team Member'''</big>		\|colspan=3 style="text-align: center; background: #13135a; color: white"\|<big>'''VSF 03.03.01: Levee Inspection Team Member'''</big>
	\|}
	~~{\| class="wikitable" style="width: 50%; "~~
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	\|style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="25%" \|'''Mission Area'''		\|style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="25%" \|'''Mission Area'''
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	\|style="text-align: center; background: darkgray; color: gainsboro" width="25%"\|'''<big>Response</big>'''		\|style="text-align: center; background: darkgray; color: gainsboro" width="25%"\|'''<big>Response</big>'''
	\|style="text-align: center; background: darkgray; color: gainsboro" width="25%"\|'''<big>Recovery</big>'''		\|style="text-align: center; background: darkgray; color: gainsboro" width="25%"\|'''<big>Recovery</big>'''
	\|}
	~~{\| class="wikitable" style="width: 50%"~~
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Lead Agency'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Lead Agency'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District (UFSWQD); deployments issued by PBEM.		\| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District (UFSWQD); deployments issued by PBEM.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Active NET Required?'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Active NET Required?'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|Yes.		\| colspan=3 style="padding: 10px" \|Yes.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Structure'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Structure'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|Levee Inspection Team Members work in pairs and report to an UFSWQD Division Supervisor or Operations Section Chief.		\| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|Levee Inspection Team Members work in pairs and report to an UFSWQD Division Supervisor or Operations Section Chief.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Relevant Knowledge, Skills, Abilities'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Relevant Knowledge, Skills, Abilities'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|Basic radio operation principles, including radio etiquette.		\| colspan=3 style="padding: 10px" \|Basic radio operation principles, including radio etiquette.
	\|-		\|-
	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Licenses and Certifications'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Licenses and Certifications'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|None required.		\| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|None required.
	\|-		\|-
	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Currency'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Currency'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|Required to complete a [[Background Checks\|Criminal Background Check]] at PBEM's expense every three years.		\| colspan=3 style="padding: 10px" \|Required to complete a [[Background Checks\|Criminal Background Check]] at PBEM's expense every three years.
	Completion of a training refresher at the start of each rainy season with UFSWQD.		Completion of a training refresher at the start of each rainy season with UFSWQD.
	\|-		\|-
	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Physical Requirements'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Physical Requirements'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|✍️ Volunteers must travel along unpaved inspection routes [approx distance or shift duration?], often in rough weather. They should carry a personal daypack. Possible exposure to variable and/or extreme weather conditions. Possible, though unlikely, exposure to water-borne pathogens found in floodwater.		\| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|✍️ Volunteers must travel along unpaved inspection routes [approx distance or shift duration?], often in rough weather. They should carry a personal daypack. Possible exposure to variable and/or extreme weather conditions. Possible, though unlikely, exposure to water-borne pathogens found in floodwater.
	\|-		\|-
	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Task Book'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Task Book'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|None at this time.		\| colspan=3 style="padding: 10px" \|None at this time.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''PPE and Recommended Equipment'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''PPE and Recommended Equipment'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|'''PPE:''' Weather appropriate/watertight clothes (rain gear) and watertight footwear designed for trails. NET vest, ID, and hard hat.		\| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|'''PPE:''' Weather appropriate/watertight clothes (rain gear) and watertight footwear designed for trails. NET vest, ID, and hard hat.
	'''Equipment:''' Personal cell phone with camera (for emergency communications and to document incidents), PBEM-issued 800 MHz radio, personal daypack with drinking water and snacks.		'''Equipment:''' Personal cell phone with camera (for emergency communications and to document incidents), PBEM-issued 800 MHz radio, personal daypack with drinking water and snacks.
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Forms'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Forms'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|[[Media:2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form.pdf\|2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form]]		\| colspan=3 style="padding: 10px" \|[[Media:2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form.pdf\|2025.10.11.Volunteer Levee Patrol Form]]
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Updated'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Updated'''
	\| style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|2025.09.15		\| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" \|2025.09.15
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	\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Released'''		\| style="background: #13135a; color: white" width="105px" \|'''Released'''
	\| style="padding: 10px" \|2025.05.12		\| colspan=3 style="padding: 10px" \|2025.05.12
	\|}		\|}