Build a one-rock-deep dam across the gully bed to spread the flow and heal the grade, a resident's own property, Leakey, TX (Real County).

The three points already treated are the places actively advancing; the general run of channel between them is still losing grade with every storm. A one-rock dam, a single course of rock spanning the channel bottom and keyed into both banks, heals that general reach. Unlike a check dam, which impounds water behind a barrier and commonly fails by being undercut or outflanked, this structure is exactly one rock deep, permeable, and built to slow and spread the flow rather than stop it. The two structures look similar and behave oppositely; building one where the other belongs teaches the failure mode instead of preventing it.

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

$150 proposed

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Proof

weather/upstream check confirm + permission/permit confirm + before/after photos + single-course depth confirm + GPS

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-28

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. 1. Walk the treated reach on stable, dry ground and photograph the general channel condition before starting.
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 a single course of rock spanning the channel bottom, keyed a few inches into each bank by hand, with a slight notch at the center so the intended overflow point is obvious rather than accidental.
4. 4. Confirm by eye and by hand pressure that no rock sits higher than one course and that water can pass through and over the structure rather than pooling deeply behind it, then photograph the finished dam from the matching before vantage.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the reach between the treated points
• Confirmation that the finished dam is exactly one rock course deep and passes water through and over it rather than impounding it behind a barrier
• Confirmation that no rock in the structure sits above knee height
• After photo of the finished one-rock dam from the matching before vantage

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.