Give a Lents roof's rain to a planter instead of the flooded street.

Every Lents roof that pipes its rain to the street adds water to a neighborhood that already floods from Johnson Creek. A disconnected downspout feeding a simple rain planter keeps that water on the lot, slows the street surge, and grows something. Invited single-story homes only.

Where

Invited single-story homes near SE Woodstock Blvd & SE 101st Ave, Portland, OR 97266 · Open the map

Pay

$380 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

photos of the planter, redirected downspout, and passing overflow test

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-18

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Confirm the host's invitation and check that the planter site sits at least 6 feet from the foundation with overflow to a safe area.
2. Build or place the planter box with liner, gravel base, soil mix, and overflow outlet per the city guidance.
3. Cut and redirect the downspout into the planter with an elbow and diverter.
4. Plant the moisture-tolerant plant list and test with a hose to confirm the overflow path.
5. Photograph the finished planter, downspout connection, and overflow test, GPS-tagged and dated.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the connected downspout
• After photos of the planter and connection
• Photo or clip of the overflow test
• GPS coordinates and date

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Green Stormwater Infrastructure. Green stormwater infrastructure is the city's way of handling rain the way a meadow does: rain gardens, planted swales, and permeable pavement that let a storm soak in instead of surging down a pipe. The EPA's inspection standard keeps these systems honest, because a neglected rain garden quietly stops working while still looking like a garden. Mastery is the inspector's eye: reading inlets, overflow, plants, and soil in a single practiced pass. This packet is one such inspection, one basin checked and one record filed, which is precisely how a thousand basins stay alive.