Install a splash block and downspout extension.

This home's downspout discharges straight onto bare ground next to the foundation, eroding the soil and pushing roof runoff right back against the house every time it rains on the flat Gulf Coastal Plain.

Where

a resident's own home garden, near the town center, Sinton, TX 78387 (San Patricio County; best-estimate location, exact address not confirmed) · Open the map

Pay

$90 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

homeowner/resident-permission record + before/after photos + hose-test video + GPS

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-13

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. Walk the resident's own yard with the resident and identify a downspout discharging straight onto bare or eroding ground near the foundation; photograph the condition before installing.
2. 2. Set a splash block at the downspout's discharge point, sloped away from the foundation.
3. 3. Attach a downspout extension routing water at least 4 to 6 feet from the foundation, onto stable ground or a vegetated area.
4. 4. Photograph the finished install from the matching before vantage and confirm water flows freely away from the foundation during a hose test.

What counts as done

• Written or recorded permission from the resident
• Before photo of the downspout discharging onto bare or eroding ground
• Splash block set and downspout extension attached, routing water away from the foundation
• After photo of the finished install
• Hose-test video confirming water flows freely away from the foundation

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Green Stormwater Infrastructure. Green stormwater infrastructure is the city's way of handling rain the way a meadow does: rain gardens, planted swales, and permeable pavement that let a storm soak in instead of surging down a pipe. The EPA's inspection standard keeps these systems honest, because a neglected rain garden quietly stops working while still looking like a garden. Mastery is the inspector's eye: reading inlets, overflow, plants, and soil in a single practiced pass. This packet is one such inspection, one basin checked and one record filed, which is precisely how a thousand basins stay alive.