Approved planting strip site near E 40th St, Tacoma, WA 98404
Build a small rain garden that drinks the street's storm water.
Build a small rain garden that drinks the street's storm water in east Tacoma. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $440 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after photos of the built basin, inlet, and plantings
- Open until2026-11-17
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Build a small rain garden that drinks the street's storm water in east Tacoma. East Tacoma's streets flush oil, metals, and grit into the creek system with every storm. A curb-cut rain garden, a planted basin that takes street water through a notch in the curb, filters that first flush block by block. Tacoma's stormwater program supports resident-built gardens on approved sites.
Offer to pay $440. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Only people working with the city stormwater program, on a site and design it has approved, may build this; call 811 before digging. Never cut the curb notch; the city crew does that; wear eye protection, hearing protection and a hi-vis vest near traffic.
The full safety list for this job:
- Hand tools, gloves, closed shoes; basins stay shallow with gentle slopes.
- Wet-cut or vacuum any cutting or grinding.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- Confirm the approved site and design with the city stormwater program and call 811 for locates.
- Dig the shallow basin to the designed depth with hand tools, shaping gentle side slopes.
- Blend in compost, set the inflow stone at the curb notch, and armor the inlet with cobbles.
- Plant the listed rain-garden natives in zones and mulch the basin.
- Photograph the finished garden and its curb inlet, GPS-tagged and dated.
What counts as done
- Before photo of the site
- After photos of the planted basin and curb inlet
- Plant list as installed
- GPS coordinates and 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.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.
Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.
Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.
Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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