Repair a leaking headgate on an invited Española acequia.

A headgate that won't seal wastes the acequia's precious allocation and shorts every field downstream, and many Española gates are decades-old improvisations of plywood and stone. Rebuilding a small gate with the commission's blessing puts real water back into the system in a drought-strapped valley.

Where

Invited acequia headgate near La Joya area, Española, NM 87532 · Open the map

Pay

$380 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

Before/after gate photos + seated-gate test

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

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. Assess the failing gate with the mayordomo while the ditch is dry.
2. Remove the worn gate board or panel and clean the frame seat.
3. Fit and seal a new gate board or drop-in panel, packing gaps with clay or gasket material.
4. Test the gate slides and seats correctly and mark its open/closed positions.
5. Photograph the repair before and after with date and GPS.

What counts as done

• Before photo of failing gate
• After photo of repaired gate seated
• Test note and date with GPS

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.