Scarify a hardened ditch bottom to restore infiltration, an I-45 frontage road ditch-bottom stand, public right of way, site 4.

The survey above found a hardened, compacted ditch bottom along the I-45 frontage road's public right of way near an I-45 frontage road ditch-bottom stand, public right of way, site 4; hand scarifying the packed surface within the ditch's existing prism lets low flows soak in again along the channel without changing the ditch's grade or conveyance capacity.

Where

the I-45 frontage road public right of way, general corridor near Fairfield, Freestone County, TX 75840 (never the interstate mainlanes) · Open the map

Pay

$145 proposed

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Proof

before after photos plus scarify depth record plus drainage-line 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, work confined to the parallel frontage road's right of way and never the I-45 interstate mainlanes or their shoulder, and photograph the hardened ditch bottom before starting.
2. 2. By hand, using a hand fork or cultivator, scarify the packed ditch-bottom surface a few inches deep within the ditch's existing prism; this is surface treatment only, never digging below the existing invert or altering the ditch's grade.
3. 3. Confirm the scarified surface still drains along the ditch's original line, does not pond, and does not raise the ditch bottom's elevation.
4. 4. Photograph the finished, scarified ditch bottom.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the hardened ditch bottom
• Scarify depth recorded (a few inches, surface only)
• 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 still drains along its original line and grade
• After photo of the scarified ditch bottom

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Soil Health. Soil health is the discovery, now written into USDA standards, that soil is not dirt but a living body: it breathes, digests, holds water, and can sicken or recover. The tests are wonderfully physical. Time how fast water soaks in. See whether a clod holds together in water or falls apart. Smell for the sweetness of organic matter. Mastery looks like a farmer who can read a handful of ground like a page. This packet is one plot examined by those methods and recorded, one honest page in the story of a piece of land.