Count the trash on fixed Coyote Creek trail segments.

Coyote Creek through east San Jose flooded thousands of residents in 2017 and still runs past Mayfair carrying the city's trash load toward the bay, and cleanup effort here is spent blind, without segment data showing where litter actually enters. A fixed monthly count on three trail segments turns volunteer hours into targeted source control.

Where

Coyote Creek Trail segments near Mabury Road, San Jose, CA 95116 · Open the map

Pay

$152 proposed

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Proof

Completed transect card with segment photos

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Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-18

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. Walk the same three 100-meter trail segments along the creek each month.
2. Count and categorize every visible litter item per segment without collecting.
3. Photograph each segment start point and the worst accumulation.
4. Note likely entry sources per segment.
5. File the card and photos as one dated record.

What counts as done

• Photo of the completed data card with date
• GPS-tagged photos of all three segment starts
• Photo of the worst accumulation point

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.