Check and clean the mussel conservation sign, the Little River public access point near the Brazos confluence.

The mussel-conservation sign installed at the Little River public access point near the Brazos confluence can fade, get covered in mud after high water, or get damaged, and no one is checking on it; a sign no one can read protects nothing.

Where

a public road right of way near where the Little River joins the Brazos River, southeastern Milam County, TX (general corridor, never an asserted mile marker) · Open the map

Pay

$80 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 legibility confirm plus hardware check note plus GPS

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-11-06

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 sign's condition
• Hardware check note (loose, damaged, or secure)
• Confirmation that this work never entered, waded into, snorkeled, dived in, or touched the water at any point and stayed on dry bank, a bar above the waterline, or a public bridge/road crossing, with the stand-off kept; that no mussel or shell, live or dead, was handled, collected, moved, repositioned, or taken, with the legal reason (protected-species risk) understood; that no bed or shell-concentration location was recorded or published, only the general public access point; that no water sample was collected and the streambed was not disturbed; and that the upstream weather/flash-flood watc
• After photo confirming the sign is clean and fully legible

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.