Document a land subsidence benchmark disk.

Katy has documented up to about 14 inches of land subsidence since 2007 at a Harris-Galveston Subsidence District GPS monitoring station, driven by groundwater withdrawal, and the National Geodetic Survey benchmark disks this kind of monitoring depends on often have no current public photo record.

Where

public right of way, Katy, TX 77493 · Open the map

Pay

$90 proposed

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Proof

document only stand off photo log plus disk identifier and condition note plus GPS plus ranked follow on note

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-30

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. From a public sidewalk or park path in Katy, locate a National Geodetic Survey benchmark disk set into the sidewalk, curb, or a park pavilion foundation, without disturbing the monument.
2. 2. Photograph the disk's stamped identifier and its setting (sidewalk, curb, or foundation) from directly above without touching or cleaning it.
3. 3. Note the disk's general condition (legible, worn, or partly covered) and its exact public location.
4. 4. Record a ranked follow on note naming the disk's location for the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District's monitoring record and for the groundwater-recharge install below.

What counts as done

• Photo of the benchmark disk's stamped identifier taken from directly above, undisturbed
• Note of the disk's setting and condition (legible, worn, or partly covered)
• Exact public location recorded
• Ranked follow on note naming the disk's location for the monitoring record

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.