Install a clean, drain, and dry decontamination station at a Caddo Lake State Park boat ramp, station 2, Caddo Lake State Park (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, public state park), 245 Park Rd 2, Karnack, TX 75661, Harrison County (2026-08-04)

The survey above found this Caddo Lake State Park boat ramp with no clean, drain, and dry signage or boot and trailer brush station, and installing one is the concrete step that keeps giant salvinia and other hitchhiking invasive species from spreading to the next lake. Standard: US EPA Rapid Bioassessment Protocols plus Texas Parks and Wildlife Department aquatic invasive species management guidance (clean, drain, and dry practice), applied here to Caddo Lake State Park, Karnack, TX, Harrison County, a lake with an active, well documented giant salvinia infestation. SDG 6.3 and 6.6. Proof: before after photos plus install record plus GPS Method (US EPA Rapid Bioassessment Protocols plus Texas Parks and Wildlife Department aquatic invasive species management guidance (clean, drain, and dry practice), applied here to Caddo Lake State Park, Karnack, TX, Harrison County, a lake with an active, well documented giant salvinia infestation. SDG 6.3 and 6.6.): 1. 1. Confirm the install location with the park staff and photograph the bare ramp entrance before starting. 2. 2. Set and anchor the clean, drain, and dry signage post at the ramp entrance with hand tools only, no power equipment. 3. 3. Mount the boot and trailer brush station near the ramp entrance, connecting a hose bib rinse point where available. 4. 4. Photograph the finished signage and brush station from the matching before vantage and record the install. Done when: Before photo of the bare ramp entrance; Photo of the anchored signage post; Photo of the mounted brush station; After photo of the finished signage and brush station from the matching vantage

Where

Caddo Lake State Park (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, public state park), 245 Park Rd 2, Karnack, TX 75661, Harrison County

Pay

$150 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

before after photos plus install record plus GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-03

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: EPA dry-weather / AMD field screening

Bring

• GPS phone
• pH meter or strips
• conductivity meter
• ammonia + iron test kit as specified
• surfactant screen if specified
• gloves
• camera

Steps

1. 1. Navigate to the outfall/reach; record GPS; photograph it, capturing any visible flow or staining.
2. 2. Note whether flow is present in dry weather (yes/no).
3. 3. Measure and record pH, conductivity, and each specified analyte per kit instructions.
4. 4. Log any color, odor, floc, or aquatic-life observation.
5. 5. Enter all readings with units, GPS, time, and photos into the proof record; sign.

If it does not match the plan

• Dry-weather flow present with elevated conductivity/ammonia/surfactants -> flag suspected illicit discharge for the responsible agency.
• pH < 6 with visible iron floc -> tag suspected acid mine drainage; recommend metals lab panel.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare ramp entrance
• Photo of the anchored signage post
• Photo of the mounted brush station
• After photo of the finished signage and brush station from the matching vantage

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Watershed Health. A watershed is everything the land pours into a stream, and the stream keeps the record. The EPA's bioassessment method reads that record through the small creatures living in the gravel: mayflies and caddisflies mean clean water, only worms and midges mean trouble. Mastery looks like a person who can wade one riffle with a net and tell you how the whole valley is doing. That skill is built sample by sample. This packet is one of them: one site, one careful count, one entry in the long record of a stream.