a public roadside ditch along US 290 on the edge of Giddings, Lee County, TX 78942
Check and clean the crayfish burrow wet season sign near Giddings.
The advisory sign installed at this roadside margin near Giddings, Lee County, TX can fade, get splashed with mud after high water Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $80 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore after photos plus legibility confirm plus hardware check note plus general site GPS
- Open until2026-11-09
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
The advisory sign installed at this roadside margin near Giddings, Lee County, TX can fade, get splashed with mud after high water, or get damaged, and no one is checking on it; a sign no one can read explains nothing.
Offer to pay $80. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
This work never digs into, probes, pokes a stick or rod down, plugs, floods, pours anything into, or otherwise disturbs an active or inactive crayfish burrow at any skill level. No crayfish, live or dead, is ever handled, captured, collected, or removed from a burrow or the surrounding mud at any skill level; burrowing crayfish are a normal part of Texas wetland margins and disturbing a burrow can collapse it and kill the animal inside. This work never claims a species identification for any crayfish seen or for the burrow itself, it records only chimney presence, count, height, and surface condition. No individual burrow or small burrow cluster is ever pinned with its own precise coordinate; every location recorded here is the general public roadside site only, never a mapped burrow. The ground at an active chimney field is often soft, waterlogged mud that will not support a person's full weight; this work stays on firm ground at the margin and never steps onto standing water or a wet mudflat that gives underfoot, and never wades into any ponded water. This site sits in the US 290 road right of way at the edge of Giddings; hi-vis is worn, work stays on the shoulder or ditch bank well clear of the travel lane, and this work never steps into the travel lane for any reason. After heavy rain this roadside ditch can run with fast moving water; this work is never done while water is visibly flowing in the ditch bottom, and if water starts rising while on site, leave immediately for the road shoulder. Texas heat on an open roadside ditch is severe with little to no shade; work in the cooler morning or evening hours when possible, carry more water than you think you need, wear sun protection and light colored breathable clothing, and take frequent shade breaks. Venomous snakes, fire ants, and ticks favor exactly this kind of damp roadside margin; watch foot and hand placement at all times, never reach blindly into grass or under debris, and give any snake a wide path. No other organism or plant is handled or collected at this site, no wild seed is ever collected, and no listed species is approached or disturbed. Tell someone your route and return time before heading out to a rural roadside site.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- 1. Photograph the sign's current condition (legibility, cleanliness, physical damage) before starting.
- 2. Clean mud, dirt, or grime off the panel by hand with water and a soft brush, never using anything abrasive that would remove the text.
- 3. Check the post and mounting hardware for looseness or damage and hand tighten or note it for repair as needed.
- 4. Photograph the cleaned, checked sign and confirm it is fully legible.
What counts as done
- Before photo of the sign's condition
- Hardware check note (loose, damaged, or secure)
- After photo confirming the sign is clean and fully legible
- Confirmation that this work never dug into, probed, plugged, flooded, or otherwise disturbed a crayfish burrow at any skill level; that no crayfish, live or dead, was handled, captured, collected, or removed; that no individual burrow or small burrow cluster was pinned with its own precise coordinate, only the general public roadside site; that this work stayed on firm ground and never stepped onto standing water or a wet mudflat; that hi-vis was worn and the work stayed on the shoulder, clear of the travel lane; and that the ditch was checked for flowing water before starting, in compliance with the vein's full safety stack.
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.
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, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
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.
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Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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