The Galena Country Estates HOA consists of 249 homes two miles up the Mt. Rose Highway. Nevada Division of Forestry & Truckee Meadows Fire PD need our HOA to create a ditch maintenance program to reduce flammable materials within drainage ditches, plant fire-resistant landscaping, achieve fuel reduction improvements in common areas and create homeowner evacuation plan.

Click on GCE Firewise Action Plan 2024-26 for details.

Free Green Waste Collection will take place beginning at 9 am until 4 pm, in fall and spring.  Please check the website at TMFPD.com prior to the event to ensure it has not been canceled due to weather conditions or a Red Flag Warning.

Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD)

https://tmfpd.us

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD) was established in 1972, and at the time, TMFPD covered and protected 550 square miles. They have now expanded their reach to over 6,000 square miles across Northern Nevada. They serve the unincorporated areas of Washoe County which includes the areas not governed by its own local municipal corporations.  More history at:  https://tmfpd.us/our-history/

Fire Adapted Nevada (FAN)

FAN is an umbrella of several federal, state, county, UNR Living with Fire, homeowner associations and other groups working together to reduce wildfire risks through education. It’s a TEAM effort. The fire crews have a better chance of saving your property if you’ve created defensible space around your home.
Fires are getting bigger. Why:

• Years of prolonged drought
• Fire seasons extends beyond 105 days a year
• Low humidity
• Zepher winds
• Development within Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)

Embers are the big threat. Click on this video to see what happened to this house (which had bark mulch hazards) in Colorado when an ember touched down from a wildfire one mile away.

Firewise USA Participant

Residents Reducing Wildfire Risks

In Summer of 2021, Galena Country Estates (GCE) met minimum requirements to become a member of Firewise USA so GCE could get help through grants or services by educating homeowners about wildfires.  Embers are the big threat. Informational handouts delivered to homes by our committee, contact GCE.Firewise@gmail.com.   Cynthia Reed is our Firewise Coordinator.  Firewise USA encourages neighbors to help neighbors. Example: Trailers. Need help or to offer help, contact coordinator. 

Our 2024 FirewiseAction Plan

• Firewise Membership 2024 Certificate Firewise 2024 Certificate
• Noxious Weed Slide Show Noxious Weed Presentation, Galena. Slide set
• Education by Webinars on Living with Fire https://www.livingwithfire.com/
• See GCE on https://www.nfpa.org
• Reduce brush around us.
  • Truckee Meadows Fire PD (TMFPD) via Nevada Energy Grant will reduce wildland brush near Whites Creek Park and also along Mt. Rose Hwy near our subdivision on land which is suppose to be our Common Area between Sundance Dr. and above Telluride Dr.
  • Homeowners report how many hours they work or pay others to reduce fuels in yard and around hydrants to GCE Coordinator whenever work is completed. Contact coordinator at Firewise@gmail.com for worksheet.
  • Paint address numbers on properties near mailboxes.

PREPARE DEFENSIBLE SPACE – LOCATIONS FOR TRUCKEE MEADOWS FIRE & RESCUE GREEN WASTE COLLECTION.

Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue’s (TMFR) Green Waste Collection Days offer the best alternative to create defensible space. Green waste collection allows residents to dispose of their dry and dead vegetation, shrubs, tree branches, and other wildland fuels to encourage the creation of defensible space to protect homes and property from wildfires.

 

These free events are sponsored by the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District for all Washoe County residents, with support from NV Energy, Nevada Division of Forestry, Living With Fire (UNR Cooperative Extension), and Fire Adapted Nevada.

 

Green Waste Collection will take place beginning at 9am until 4pm, weather permitting at various locations (check the website at TMFPD.com prior to the event to ensure it has not been canceled due to weather conditions or a Red Flag Warning).

Examples of accepted items include junipers, pines, rabbitbrush, sagebrush, and other woody vegetation. ONLY natural vegetation, please. Items we will NOT accept include household garbage and trash, lumber, hazardous materials, grass clippings, dirt and gravel, and stumps with root balls. Tree stumps in excess of 8 inches in diameter will not be accepted. Additionally, we cannot accept items in bags. Bags must be emptied on-site and removed. Commercial waste will NOT be accepted from contractors or landscape companies. Please do not dispose of waste outside of assigned hours. Discarding waste outside of operating hours will be considered illegal dumping. Please dispose of items during working hours. Fire restrictions remain in place in the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District. As a reminder, open (pile) burning is prohibited. All outdoor recreational and cooking fires are prohibited except for the residential use of propane, electric, and pellet-fueled barbeques. All other recreational appliances including charcoal briquettes and any outdoor wood fires are restricted. This includes campfires

 

GCE November/May Community Clean-Up

Homeowners are responsible for keeping properties, ditches, and dirt roads cleared of debris to prevent fires and keep our neighborhood looking grand. 

You can set 6 bags/trash cans of brush out with no yellow stickers (free) for Waste Management (WM) (wm.com) to pick-up during 4 weeks in November/May.  You also have a packet of yellow stickers to place on up to 6 bags at other times when you have more trash than the green trash can hold.

Waste Management also allows you to dump any type of waste for FREE at the Sage Street Transfer Station 1390 E. Commercial Row, Reno, NV 89512, four times a year.  Just show your WM Statement plus ID, keep load under 3 cubic yards at a time.  Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

GALENA COUNTRY ESTATES

HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION

APRIL 1, 2007

Each lot owner shall be responsible for the maintenance of private drainage facilities and the natural drainage characteristics within their lot so other properties are not adversely affected. A blanket easement is hereby granted within each lot to the affected property as may be necessary for the perpetuation of the natural drainage characteristics and improved drainage facilities.

Drainage facilities outside the dedicated right-of-way to be maintained by the homeowners, unless they are in a minimum 15-foot wide drainage easement and piped with concrete pipe

No owner or tenant shall obstruct a drainage channel within a tract in a fashion, which creates a danger to or causes damages on the property of any other person within the tract.