Install a rainwater-harvesting cistern.

This building's whole roof runoff drops straight off the downspouts onto the gravel lot and into the roadside ditch with nothing to catch it; a larger-format cistern plumbed to the downspouts captures that first flush for the department's own equipment-washdown and landscape use instead of sending it downstream unused.

Where

the volunteer fire department's downspouts, Runge, TX 78151 (Karnes County); best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$480 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 — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after photos + downspout tie-in photo + overflow-routing confirm + fill/draw-down water-test + GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

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How this work is done

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

Bring

• measuring tape
• GPS phone
• camera
• trowel / probe
• data sheet
• gloves

Steps

1. 1. Locate the GI asset; record GPS; identify the type (rain garden / bioswale / permeable pavement / tree filter).
2. 2. Photograph the asset, its inlet, and its outlet/overflow.
3. 3. Check the inlet and outlet for blockage (sediment, trash, mulch) and note whether flow can enter/leave freely.
4. 4. Check for standing water and estimate whether it drains within the design window (typically <24-48h after rain); probe media if dry.
5. 5. Assess vegetation/media condition and estimate sediment/trash accumulation depth.
6. 6. Note erosion, bypass, or structural damage and list the maintenance needed.
7. 7. Enter asset type, condition, inlet/outlet status, drainage observation, sediment level, maintenance needs, GPS, photos; sign.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the bare downspout discharging to the gravel lot
• Downspout tie-in photo showing a proper leaf screen/first-flush diverter
• Overflow path confirmed routed safely away from the building foundation and the vehicle bay apron
• Fill/draw-down water-test video showing the cistern filling from a hose simulation and the draw spigot working

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.