Place a grade-control structure.

The survey above found an active headcut migrating upslope into a TX 179 roadside ditch bank near a TX 179 roadside ditch bank stand, public right of way, site 3; hand placing rock across the headcut's drop, worked from the ditch bank on stable ground, spreads the flow's energy and stops the headcut's upslope migration without altering the ditch's overall drainage function.

Where

the TX 179 public road right of way, general corridor near Teague, Freestone County, TX 75860 · Open the map

Pay

$165 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 rock sill placement record plus flow-path confirm plus GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-06

Posted by

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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. 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 active headcut
• Rock sill placement and material recorded
• Confirmation that this work never entered, crossed, or approached any fenced, posted, gated, or access-controlled land and stayed within the public right of way, public building grounds, or a consenting resident's own home; that no impoundment, pond, settling basin, highwall, pit edge, or steep spoil face was approached and no water was sampled or touched; that no digging, boring, probing, or excavation below the ground surface occurred, all work being surface treatment with hand tools only; that no precise coordinate of any pit, impoundment, or highwall was recorded or published; that this re
• Confirmation the ditch's overall drainage path is unchanged
• After photo of the finished grade-control placement

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.