Redirect roof and yard runoff away from the septic drainfield.

Now that the drainfield near Centerville is marked, the next real risk is hydraulic: a downspout, a sprinkler head, or a low spot that dumps extra water directly onto the field pushes it past the soil's absorption capacity, and treated water can surface at the ground instead of finishing its treatment underground before it reaches shallow groundwater and the Keechi Creek watershed that drains this part of Leon County toward the Trinity River.

Where

resident home along FM 1119 near Centerville, Leon County, TX 75833 (own-home, best-estimate vicinity) · Open the map

Pay

$220 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 + diversion-point record + water-clearance confirmation + GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-24

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

• Written or recorded permission from the resident precedes any work at their home, and this work is only ever done on the resident's own property with the resident present or informed.
• Before photo of the downspout, sprinkler, or low spot discharging onto the marked drainfield
• After photo of the extended downspout, redirected sprinkler head, or shaped diversion swale
• Hose or rain-event confirmation that runoff now clears the marked boundary
• Confirmation that the septic tank, riser, and lid were never opened, entered, or touched at any point

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.