the corner pupuseria at 8400 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90044
Install drip irrigation on the new garden bed, the corner pupuseria.
A worker connects a backflow preventer, pressure regulator and battery timer to the hose bib at the corner pupuseria at 8400 S Vermont Ave and lays drip line along the garden bed, with emitters wetting the bed evenly. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $380 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after photos + emitter-spacing log + pressure-regulator/backflow-preventer photo + leak/flow test video + GPS
- Open until2026-12-10
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Install a drip line and battery timer on the new garden bed at the corner pupuseria at 8400 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA. The freshly built bed has no watering plan and this kitchen's staff cannot hand-water it every day, and a hose-bib-fed drip line keeps it consistently watered with a fraction of the water a hose would use. The garden bed has no automatic watering, so it stays dry unless someone waters it by hand. For the payer: - Price: $380 per job, counted in square feet watered and zones installed. - Likely payer: LADWP rebate programs, paid to the account holder after the program's pre-approval. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-27 Landscaping license.
Offer to pay $380. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Connect only at an existing hose bib, never cut into a pipe, and fit the backflow preventer first at the tap. Get the owner's and manager's consent first, keep tubing off the walkway, and wear gloves, eye protection and boots with water and shade close.
The full safety list for this job:
- Backflow preventer required at the hose-bib tap; never tie into a potable line without one; keep tubing off the walkway travel path.
- Owner/manager consent precedes work.
- Never add to a pipe either. Put every part after the backflow preventer in the order its package states: timer, filter, pressure regulator, tubing. Keep hoses off the walkway as well as tubing. Wear closed-toe boots. A hose bib is already a potable connection; the backflow device protects the building's water from the garden. Use a hose-connection dual-check backflow preventer when a timer valve sits anywhere after it, and a bare hose-bib vacuum breaker only where no valve follows it (read the package). Fit a filter and a regulator to about 25 psi, because house pressure in LA often runs 60 to 90 psi and blows drip fittings. Keep the device above the highest emitter. Use tubing sold for drip irrigation, never old garden hose or recycled-rubber hose, on a food bed. Never connect to purple pipe or a greywater source. Keep tubing and hoses off the walkway travel path.
- Site briefing; confirm where the shutoff is and who to call (Title 8 section 3203).
- A quart of water an hour, shade at 80 degrees F and above, watch each other at 95 and above (Title 8 section 3395).
- Check the wildfire smoke AQI; at 151 or more ask for an N95 (Title 8 section 5141.1).
- Gloves and closed-toe boots (section 3385); eye protection for cutting tubing and punching (Title 8 section 3384).
- Shallow tubing under mulch needs none; any stake or hole deeper than a trowel needs a locate and the 24 inch hand-dig zone (Title 8 section 1541).
- Footwear, Title 8 section 3385: sturdy boots for digging tools and heavy pipe.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- backflow preventer rated for the line
- battery timer
- filter and 25 psi pressure regulator
- 1/2 inch drip mainline, 1/4 inch or inline emitter drip line, fittings, stakes, end caps
- tubing cutter and punch
- thread tape
- eye protection
- work gloves
- closed-toe boots
- hat, sunscreen and a quart of water an hour
Steps
- Obtain two things in writing before any work: the owner's or manager's consent for this work at this address, and, when an LADWP rebate pays for it, the rebate pre-approval (SoCal WaterSmart) with the pre-approval photos taken as the program asks. Work done before the pre-approval can be ineligible, so the start waits for it. Write both at the top of your proof.
- Confirm the title-named garden bed and obtain consent from its responsible owner, manager, or host.
- Confirm the water source is an existing hose bib on the potable line, who pays the water, the plants in the bed, and that the host's timer will run outside LADWP's barred daytime hours (verify the current rule).
- Photograph the unwatered bed before installation.
- Install from the tap in this order: backflow preventer, timer, filter, pressure regulator, adapter, 1/2 inch mainline, then drip line or inline emitters (0.5 to 1 gallon an hour at 12 inch spacing for vegetables; 2 gallon an hour emitters, two to four per plant, for shrubs and trees). Flush the line before capping the ends, stake it every 3 feet, and cover it with mulch.
- Photograph the backflow preventer and pressure regulator at the connection.
- Record emitter spacing and rate for the planted rows, the run time and days (typically 20 to 30 minutes, two to three days a week in the warm months, before sunrise) and the watering window the water agency allows.
- Run a flow test for 15 to 20 minutes, look at the far end of every line and watch for leaks at the regulator and the device. Record it showing every emitter wetting evenly, then photograph the completed bed and attach GPS proof. Leave the host a card: how to reset the timer, change the battery and clean the filter.
What counts as done
- Before photo of the unwatered bed
- Backflow-preventer and pressure-regulator photo at the hose-bib connection
- Emitter spacing/rate log matched to the planted rows
- Leak/flow-test video showing every emitter wetting evenly with no blown fittings
- Photo of the device order at the tap.
- The regulator rating.
- Photo of the timer screen showing the schedule.
- The flow test, with the far end in the frame.
- The host's care card.
- Photos show no device after a valve that has no rating for it, no missing filter, no tubing loose on the surface of a walkway and no schedule inside the barred hours.
- Consent: the owner's or manager's written consent, naming the address and the work, dated before the first photo.
- Pre-approval first: the LADWP rebate program's pre-approval or reservation number and date, from before any work, or the words 'no rebate' when none is claimed.
- Completion matches the pre-approval: the pre-work photos taken for it, and the completion measurements (square feet watered and the zones) that match what the program approved.
- Sign-off: the owner or manager signs off the finished work in writing, and LADWP's completion review accepts the record when a rebate pays for it. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
- Five years: when a turf replacement rebate pays for the conversion, tell the owner in writing that the area must stay compliant with the program's rules for five years, and record that they were told.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Water Efficiency. Water efficiency is the quiet discipline of wasting nothing indoors. The EPA's WaterSense program sets the marks: how many gallons a minute a faucet should pass, how to find the leak that runs a toilet all night, how a household's water bill tells a story. Mastery looks like an auditor who can walk a home in an hour and find every hidden gallon. The skill is built one fixture at a time, which is exactly what this packet asks: measure one flow, find one leak, record one truth about where the water goes.
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