Armor the drop.

A second drop, a nick point, sits a short distance below the headcut treated by the rung before this one; left alone, this is the next point in line to become the next headcut. A rock rundown, an armored ramp of hand placed rock laid over the drop, lets water descend across stone the whole way down instead of digging its own new step, so the grade below the head stops advancing too.

Where

a gully cutting through the back of a resident's own rural property, Leakey, TX 78873 (Real County; best-estimate location, exact address not confirmed) · Open the map

Pay

$190 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

weather/upstream check confirm + permission/permit confirm + before/after photos + ramp grading confirm + GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-28

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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 to the nick point on stable, dry ground and photograph it before starting, noting its approximate drop height.
2. 2. Confirm permission and any permit requirement exactly as described in this rung's safety notes before placing a single rock.
3. 3. Hand place overlapping rock in a graded ramp across the drop, largest rock at the toe of the ramp and smaller rock upstream, so water sheets across stone the whole way down rather than plunging over a bare edge.
4. 4. Confirm the finished ramp is knee height or lower at its highest point and photograph it from the same before vantage.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the nick point showing its approximate drop height
• Confirmation that the weather and upstream conditions were checked and the channel was dry before work began
• Confirmation that permission and any required permit were confirmed before the first rock was placed
• After photo of the finished rundown ramp from the matching before vantage, with rock grading (large to small, toe to head) recorded

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.