Hand-dig a recharge swale and rain garden.

This home's roof and yard runoff currently sheets straight off the thin karst soil into the street instead of soaking into the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, which a hand-dug swale and native planting could slow and hold.

Where

resident homes along the North 10th Street / College Street corridor, Junction, TX 76849 (own-home) · 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 — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

homeowner/resident-permission record + before/after photos + basin-depth measurement + native-planting record + GPS

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-30

Posted by

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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 the swale/basin location with the resident, away from the septic field and any buried utility, and photograph the bare site before digging.
2. 2. Hand-dig a shallow swale or basin to the design depth at a low point that already collects roof or yard runoff.
3. 3. Backfill with amended soil and plant native, water-tolerant Edwards Plateau species at the design spacing.
4. 4. Mulch the swale and photograph the finished planting from the matching before vantage, recording species/count and depth.

What counts as done

• Written or recorded permission from the resident
• Before photo of the bare site and grading
• Swale/basin hand-dug to the design depth with a photo showing the measurement
• Native, water-tolerant Edwards Plateau species and count recorded
• After photo showing the finished, mulched swale

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.