Build a lined concrete washout pit so wash water never reaches the ground, Longview ISD Early Childhood Learning Center, Longview, TX (public school district bond project).

Wash water from a concrete chute or mixer is strongly alkaline and kills what it reaches if it soaks into bare soil or runs toward a ditch or a storm drain. A dug, plastic lined pit with a berm and a posted sign gives the crew somewhere to wash out that is not the ground.

Where

500 Melba St, Longview, TX 75602 (Longview ISD Early Childhood Learning Center site, south Longview, Gregg County -- a public school district bond construction project) · Open the map

Pay

$180 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

location confirmation + liner photo + sign photo + drainage-clearance confirmation

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-10

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.

Steps

1. 1. Confirm the pit's location with the general contractor's site supervisor, sited away from any storm drain, ditch, or slope that drains toward one.
2. 2. Dig a shallow pit to the confirmed size, well clear of any below grade utility marked by an honored locate.
3. 3. Line the full pit with a continuous, unpunctured plastic liner running up and over the berm on every side, with no gap or seam left uncovered.
4. 4. Post a weatherproof "CONCRETE WASHOUT ONLY" sign at the pit.
5. 5. Photograph the lined, signed, empty pit before its first use.

What counts as done

• Confirmation that the pit location was confirmed away from any storm drain, ditch, or draining slope
• Photo of the continuous, unpunctured liner in place, up and over the berm
• Photo of the posted "CONCRETE WASHOUT ONLY" sign
• Confirmation that an honored utility locate was completed before any digging

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.