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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. 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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|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>
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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>'''
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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.   
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| 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.
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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.
| 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.
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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.  
| 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.  
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| 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" |✍️ Levee Inspection 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
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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.
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|State of California Department of Water Resources and [https://urbanfloodsafetyor.gov/about-us/ The Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District]
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|2012.04.__ & 2016.__.__
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