Water Santa Ana's new street trees on the weekly round (2026-08-03)

Santa Ana's renter-majority blocks can't be assumed to adopt city trees, and unwatered plantings fail in two dry summers. A paid weekly watering round across the young-tree list is what makes the canopy program real. Standard: Arbor Day Foundation young tree establishment care, SDG 11. Proof: Per-tree watering photos weekly Method (Arbor Day Foundation young tree establishment care, SDG 11.): 1. Follow the young-tree route weekly. 2. Deliver 10–15 gallons per tree slowly into each basin. 3. Weed basins and flag damage for follow-up. 4. Photograph each watered tree with GPS and date. Done when: Wet-basin photo per tree; GPS and date stamps; Route tree count

Where

Young street trees, W 1st St corridor, Santa Ana, CA 92703

Pay

$160 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. You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

Per-tree watering photos weekly

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-08-10

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it. Typically 30–60 minutes. Method of record: i-Tree canopy / street-tree inventory

Bring

• GPS phone
• DBH tape or measuring tape
• tree ID reference
• camera
• hi-vis vest

Steps

1. 1. Walk the corridor; record a GPS waypoint at each tree.
2. 2. Photograph each surveyed tree.
3. 3. Record species (best estimate), condition class (good/fair/poor/dead), and DBH (diameter at breast height).
4. 4. Count vacant planting sites.
5. 5. Enter the per-tree records, vacant-site count, GPS, photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Dead or hazardous tree observed -> flag for the responsible agency (no removal by surveyor).
• High vacant-site count -> recommend a planting plan for the corridor.

What counts as done

• Wet-basin photo per tree
• GPS and date stamps
• Route tree count

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.