Place a grade-control structure.

The survey above found an active headcut migrating upslope into a TX 179 roadside ditch bank near a TX 179 roadside ditch bank stand, public right of way, site 2; hand placing rock across the headcut's drop, worked from the ditch bank on stable ground, spreads the flow's energy and stops the headcut's upslope migration without altering the ditch's overall drainage function.

Where

the TX 179 public road right of way, general corridor near Teague, Freestone County, TX 75860 · Open the map

Pay

$165 proposed

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Proof

before after photos plus rock sill placement record plus flow-path confirm plus GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-06

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. 1. Confirm no traffic hazard, put on hi-vis, and photograph the active headcut before starting, standing on stable ground on the ditch bank the entire time.
2. 2. By hand, place rock across the base of the headcut's drop in a low, loose grade-control sill; this is surface work only, never digging into or below the ditch bed.
3. 3. Confirm the placement spreads the flow's energy rather than damming or redirecting water into a new uncontrolled path.
4. 4. Photograph the finished placement and confirm the ditch's overall drainage path is unchanged.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the active headcut
• Rock sill placement and material recorded
• Confirmation that this work never entered, crossed, or approached any fenced, posted, gated, or access-controlled land and stayed within the public right of way, public building grounds, or a consenting resident's own home; that no impoundment, pond, settling basin, highwall, pit edge, or steep spoil face was approached and no water was sampled or touched; that no digging, boring, probing, or excavation below the ground surface occurred, all work being surface treatment with hand tools only; that no precise coordinate of any pit, impoundment, or highwall was recorded or published; that this re
• Confirmation the ditch's overall drainage path is unchanged
• After photo of the finished grade-control placement

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.