Build the public monitoring well baseline.

An aquifer keeps its own books and publishes them as a hydrograph. Find every public monitoring well within reach of Los Angeles in the USGS National Water Information System and in the state or district network run by the California State Water Resources Control Board and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, pull the full published record for each, and plot depth to water over time. Report the trend per well with its slope and its period, name the wells that stopped reporting, and say plainly which way the Los Angeles River and the San Fernando groundwater basin is going. No projection, no model, only the published readings.

Where

public streets, river greenway paths and city parks, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA · Open the map

Pay

$80 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

well list with site ids, the full published hydrograph per well, a stated trend with slope and period, and the anchor hash of the published baseline

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-10-01

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.

Bring

• laptop with a spreadsheet
• the state or district water rights and withdrawal registry, open in a browser
• the utility's published monthly or annual water reports
• USGS National Water Information System site pages for the local gauges and monitoring wells
• a hashing tool for the anchor step
• GPS phone and camera for the one bank or gauge photo

Steps

1. 1. Name the system and the source exactly as the agency names them, then list every record type that could exist for it: water right, permit, contract, registered withdrawal, diversion order, compact allocation.
2. 2. Search each registry for the system by name and by any parent utility or district, and record for every hit the issuing agency, the filing reference, the allowed volume in the record's own units, and the date of the version read. Where a search returns nothing, write not found and write down the search that was run.
3. 3. Pull the volume actually taken for the reporting period and LABEL each figure at the point of entry: utility report, agency registry, owner meter, or no data. Never convert units without showing the conversion in the sheet, and never fill a gap with an average.
4. 4. Pull the published record for every public gauge and monitoring well within reach, keep the full series rather than the last reading, and state a trend per site with its slope and the period the slope was computed over.
5. 5. Set allowed volume, taken volume and the same period one year earlier side by side, and write one plain sentence saying which way the place is going and which figure in the sheet is the weakest.
6. 6. Publish the sheet and the sentence in full, hash the published file, and anchor the hash via vealth.net/anchor before handing it to anyone.

What counts as done

• A list of every public monitoring well found near the place, each with its USGS site number or state well id and its operator
• The published depth to water record for each well, with the first and last reading dates and the number of readings
• A stated trend per well: rising, falling or flat, with the slope in feet per year and the period it was computed over, plus any well whose record has stopped
• The baseline published and its content hash anchored via vealth.net/anchor

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.