Build a rain garden that swallows the roof water.

Olivehurst's flat lots pond water they could be soaking into the ground instead. A rain garden, a planted shallow basin dug at the right spot and fed by the redirected downspout, turns a soggy yard problem into infiltration and habitat. Each one built keeps hundreds of gallons per storm out of streets that flood.

Where

Host-invited yard near Powerline Rd area, Olivehurst, CA 95961 · Open the map

Pay

$392 proposed

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Proof

Photos of dug basin, planting, and inflow test with GPS/date

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

Posted by

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How this work is done

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

Steps

1. Site the basin with the host at least 10 feet from foundations, confirming 811 marking first.
2. Dig the shallow basin with gently sloped sides and berm the downhill edge with the removed soil.
3. Amend the basin bottom with compost and set the downspout or extension feed into it.
4. Plant water-tolerant natives in the basin and drought-tolerant on the berm, then mulch.
5. Hose-test the inflow, verify holding and draining, and photograph the finished garden, recording with GPS and date.

What counts as done

• Photo of the shaped basin before planting
• Photo of the planted mulched garden
• Photo of inflow during the hose test
• GPS-tagged photo with date

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.