Install erosion control matting.

Runoff off this home's roof and driveway has cut a small sandy-soil gully across the side yard, widening a little more with every rain; matting and check structures set now stop it from growing further.

Where

a resident's own home near the town center, Alice, TX 78332 (Jim Wells County; best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed) · Open the map

Pay

$175 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 + matting photo + check-structure photo + GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-13

Posted by

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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. Confirm with the resident how this drainage line is currently handled, then photograph the gully as found.
2. 2. Hand-place erosion control matting along the gully's active channel, pinned at the edges.
3. 3. Hand-build small check structures from clean fill or matting offcuts at intervals down the gully to slow the water.
4. 4. Photograph the finished, matted and check-structured gully from the same vantage as the before photo.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the gully as found
• Matting-placement photo
• Check-structure photo
• Confirmation that no digging went beyond hand tools and no equipment entered the channel while water was flowing

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Soil Health. Soil health is the discovery, now written into USDA standards, that soil is not dirt but a living body: it breathes, digests, holds water, and can sicken or recover. The tests are wonderfully physical. Time how fast water soaks in. See whether a clod holds together in water or falls apart. Smell for the sweetness of organic matter. Mastery looks like a farmer who can read a handful of ground like a page. This packet is one plot examined by those methods and recorded, one honest page in the story of a piece of land.