Cut out a defunct field-drain pipe stub blocking a ditch bank, a retired row-crop field, Westhoff, TX 77994 (DeWitt County).

An old field-drain pipe stub sticks out of the ditch bank at a retired field near Westhoff, left over from a tile line that was rerouted years ago -- the open end still catches leaves and sediment every rain, damming a thin line of standing water against the bank instead of letting it pass.

Where

a retired row-crop field, Westhoff, TX 77994 (DeWitt County); best-estimate location near the town center, exact address not confirmed · Open the map

Pay

$115 proposed

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Proof

before photo + dead-line confirm + cut/pulled photo + after photo + GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-19

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. Confirm with the landowner that the stub is disconnected from any active drain line before cutting or pulling it.
2. 2. Clear the debris jammed in and around the open end by hand so the surrounding flow path is visible.
3. 3. Cut the pipe flush with the bank face using a hand pipe saw, or pull it free by hand if it is loose enough.
4. 4. Smooth the cut bank face and photograph the open channel with water passing freely.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the jammed stub and the standing water behind it
• Landowner confirmation that the stub is disconnected from any active drain line
• Photo of the pipe cut or pulled free
• After photo of the open channel with water passing

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.