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=== Summary ===
=== Summary ===
[[File:2025.11.14.UFSWQD Training.Devitt (36).jpg|thumb|''NETs learning how to clear levee debris. Photo by Glenn Devitt, November 14 2025.'']]
Work in teams under the direction of UFSWQD Operations staff to remove vegetative or man-made debris from key drainage and levee areas. Volunteers will assist the District’s team by helping ensure that water can flow freely and that the system maintains its capacity during storm events. Blocked culverts and channels delay emergency actions. Volunteer support helps prevent bigger problems by keeping the system accessible and operational. Debris Removal Task Force Volunteers contribute to:
Work in teams under the direction of UFSWQD Operations staff to remove vegetative or man-made debris from key drainage and levee areas. Volunteers will assist the District’s team by helping ensure that water can flow freely and that the system maintains its capacity during storm events. Blocked culverts and channels delay emergency actions. Volunteer support helps prevent bigger problems by keeping the system accessible and operational. Debris Removal Task Force 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 03.03.02: Debris Removal Task Force Member'''</big>
|colspan=3 style="text-align: center; background: #13135a; color: white"|<big>'''VSF 03.03.02: Debris Removal Task Force 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" |Debris Removal Task Force Members work in groups and report to an UFSWQD Division Supervisor or Operations Section Chief.
| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" |Debris Removal Task Force Members work in groups 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, and carry a personal daypack. Volunteers work in uneven terrain to physically move debris from culverts.  
| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" |Work is primarily performed in the field; exposure to variable and/or extreme weather conditions, flowing water, water-borne pathogens found in floodwater, and off-road driving conditions; standing, walking, driving, hiking, digging, and may be required to lift up to 50 pounds.  
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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 steel-toed boots. NET vest, ID, and hard hat.  
| colspan=3 style="background: white; padding: 10px" |'''PPE:''' Weather appropriate/watertight clothes (rain gear) and steel-toed boots. 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. Additionally, UFSWQD will issue the following equipment: head lamp, stakes and flagging tape, emergency blanket and ponchos, notebook, rakes.
'''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. Additionally, UFSWQD will issue the following equipment: head lamp, stakes and flagging tape, emergency blanket and ponchos, notebook, rakes.
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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.UFSWQD Support Function Checklist.pdf|UFSWQD Volunteer Support Function Checklist]]
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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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|style="background: #d35d30; color: white"|'''Required'''
|style="background: #d35d30; color: white"|'''Required'''
|In-person
|In-person
|✍️ # hours for class?
|4 hours
|Learn everything needed to qualify as a Debris Removal Task Force Member, including how to spot trouble areas, reporting, and debris removal.
|Learn everything needed to qualify as a Debris Removal Task Force Member, including how to spot trouble areas, reporting, and debris removal.
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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)]]
|✍️
|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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