a public right-of-way in Compton, CA
Restore a street tree pit.
A worker clears trash and weeds from a parkway tree pit with a hand fork at Compton, turning the choked pit into a mulched ring. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $200 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- ProofBefore/after pit photos plus block-face photo
- Open until2026-10-30
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Clear and mulch a street tree pit at a public right-of-way in Compton, CA. The street tree pits here are compacted, weed-choked, and littered, slowly stressing the shade canopy. Restoring a pit gives the tree room to thrive. Name the exact site and confirm it with its host before you claim: this listing gives only the area.
Fund it for $200. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Start after the crew's safety orientation. Hand tools only: never cut a root, never prune, and call 811 before digging. Wear gloves, closed-toe boots and a hi-vis vest, work from the sidewalk, never the traffic lane, and never touch a needle or broken glass: stop and report it on MyLA311. Stop outdoor work when the AQI passes 150; employer provides water, shade and cool-down rests.
The full safety list for this job:
- Call 811 before any digging; wear a hi-vis vest near traffic.
- Never use a string trimmer or herbicide near the tree, and call 811 before any digging. Work from the sidewalk side facing traffic, never from the traffic lane. Never pick up a needle or broken glass by hand; use tongs and a hard container and report it on MyLA311. A string trimmer, mower or herbicide never goes near a street tree; bark damage from trimmers girdles more young street trees than any other cause. Keep the walkway clear for wheelchairs and strollers (36 inches wide), keep tools off the sidewalk, and keep mulch below the curb edge so it does not wash into the storm drain. Do not move belongings or disturb a camp in or near a pit; photograph it from a distance and report it on MyLA311. A dead or hanging limb over the walkway: keep people away and report it, never pull it down. Water from the host's hose bib with a shutoff nozzle, never from a hydrant or a street valve. Photograph and report limb problems to urban forestry.
- Site briefing: who to call, where to report an injury, how to leave a pit that has a camp or hazard in it (Title 8 section 3203).
- Water a quart an hour, shade breaks at 80 degrees F and above, watch each other at 95 and above; a south-facing LA parkway in July is a hot surface (Title 8 section 3395).
- Check the air index; at 151 or more ask for an N95 (Title 8 section 5141.1).
- Tree pits hold needles, broken glass and human waste: never pick a needle up by hand, use tongs and a hard container, wear puncture-resistant gloves, report it on MyLA311, and get checked if you are stuck (Title 8 section 5193).
- A Class 2 hi-vis vest at least (Class 3 on a street over 35 miles an hour), face traffic, stay behind the curb, never step into the lane or the car-door side of a parked car (Title 8 section 1598).
- Call 811 (DigAlert) at least two working days ahead, keep the ticket number, and hand-dig only within 24 inches of any mark (Title 8 section 1541).
- Water is about 8 pounds a gallon and a full 5-gallon bucket is 42 pounds: fill buckets half (Title 8 section 3203).
- No chainsaw, pole saw, pruning saw, ladder or climbing in this job: pruning and removal are tree work under Title 8 section 3420 and following for a trained crew; this job does no pruning at any height (Title 8 section 3420).
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for root balls and stakes of 50 pounds or more that can drop; leather gloves for rough bark, stakes and ties.
- Entry level work: no training is required and no license is needed, and the stop lines above still apply.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- puncture-resistant gloves
- tongs or a litter grabber and a small hard sharps container
- ANSI Class 2 hi-vis vest (Class 3 on a street over 35 mph)
- hand snips for loose ties
- two 5-gallon buckets filled half
- knee pads
- hat, sunscreen and a quart of water an hour
- N95 for smoke or dust
Steps
- Note sharps, glass, human or animal waste and belongings without handling them: photograph from a distance and report on MyLA311. Look for string-trimmer scars at the trunk base.
- Clear trash and weeds by hand. Remove only loose ties, cord and mats, by hand or with snips. If wire or cable is embedded in the bark, do not cut or pry it: photograph it and report it to urban forestry.
- Loosen only the top 2 inches with the tines held at an angle and kept 6 inches from the trunk. Never cut, pull or chop a root of any size. Lift loose soil off the flare by gloved hand or soft brush, never with a tool tip. If the flare is buried deeper than 2 inches, photograph and report it; do not dig it out.
- Mulch 2 to 3 inches deep with clean arborist chips, flat, with 3 to 6 inches bare at the trunk and the top of the mulch below the curb edge. Water slowly in two or three passes of 5 to 7 gallons from the host's spigot or half-full buckets, and skip a pit that is already standing wet. Do not use chips from a tree with pinhole entry holes and sawdust frass (shot hole borer).
- VERIFY: photograph the finished pit from the matching vantage (flare visible, mulch ring correct, pit weed-free) and log the watering. Never prune at any height. Report limbs and wounds on MyLA311 and write the reference number next to the tree in the proof.
- Walk the block face and count every tree pit, noting which hold living trees.
- Pull weeds and litter from each pit by hand and loosen the top inch of crust with a hand cultivator.
- Spread two to three inches of mulch in each pit, keeping mulch off the trunk flare.
- Bag the removed litter for proper disposal.
- Photograph each pit before and after, plus the full block face, with date and GPS.
What counts as done
- Before photos of at least four pits
- After photos of the same pits mulched
- GPS-tagged block-face photo with date
- Site record: the exact site's name and street address, and the contact who agreed to the work
- After photo shows the flare, a bare ring at the trunk, and mulch flat with its top below the curb edge.
- A bucket count or hose timer for the water, because a volume cannot be seen.
- Photos show no mulch against the bark, no mounded ring, no bare compacted soil, no damaged bark and no raw cut roots.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment that backs the wage, plus one Vealth service fee of 10% shown apart; the worker is paid the whole wage. Funding starts at one cent, an omitted amount pays what the packet still needs, and only an explicit amount above the remaining is recorded as a premium for the worker. Money settles only on accepted proof. An agent can fund it in one x402 call: POST /nurture/fund {"workId":"WORK_1785462561914_amw5o4s","funderWallet":"0xYOU"}.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.
Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.
Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.
Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
Packet WORK_1785462561914_amw5o4s