a corner pupuseria on the Tweedy Blvd corridor, South Gate, CA 90280
Install drip irrigation on the pupuseria's new garden bed, a corner pupuseria on the Tweedy Blvd corridor, South Gate, CA 90280.
A worker at a corner pupuseria on the Tweedy Blvd corridor fits a battery timer, regulator and backflow preventer on the hose bib, then runs drip tubing with spaced emitters along the garden bed to water it. 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 hose-fed drip line and battery timer on the garden bed at a corner pupuseria on the Tweedy Blvd corridor, South Gate, CA. It has no watering plan and kitchen staff cannot hand-water it every day; the timed line keeps it watered on a fraction of what a hose would use. The new garden bed has no watering system and goes unwatered.
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.
- Business-owner 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 air index; 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
- Get the business owner's consent before starting work at the business this job's title names.
- 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 garden bed as found, unwatered.
- 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.
- Run the drip line header from the regulator to the bed, keeping tubing off the walkway.
- 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.
- Attach a battery timer at the hose-bib connection.
- Turn on the water and record a video of every emitter wetting evenly with no blown fittings.
- Save the before photo, backflow and regulator photo, spacing log and leak/flow video as the job's proof.
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.
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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