Frogtown
Remove invasive arundo and replant native riparian species, reach 2.
Cut out the invasive giant reed and replant natives on the LA River bank near Blake Ave. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $380 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after photos per reach + species/count replant log + disposal photo + GPS
- Open until2027-02-09
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Cut out the invasive giant reed and replant natives on the LA River bank near Blake Ave. Giant reed (Arundo donax) has taken over this Los Angeles reach, crowding out native willow and cottonwood and drying the soil it stands in. Hand-removal is the river's real restoration work. For the payer: - Price: $380 per job, counted in square feet cleared and plants set, by species. - Likely payer: Measure W, the Safe Clean Water Program, through the project owner. - 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
Needs someone who can cut arundo with loppers or a folding saw and replant natives; no licence is asked for. Hand tools only, no power equipment; work from the established bank/bike path only, never enter the water channel; check the current flow advisory first.
The full safety list for this job:
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: waterproof non-slip boots for slick banks, an abnormally wet location; cut-resistant waterproof gloves for glass, sharps and contaminated water.
- Wildfire smoke, section 5141.1: at a PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more the employer provides N95 respirators for voluntary use and moves the work indoors or cuts exposure where feasible; above AQI 500 respirators are required under a respiratory protection program.
- Heat, section 3395: drinking water, shade and cool-down rests; shade is ready at 80 F and the high-heat steps start at 95 F.
- Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Steps
- Obtain the project owner's signed scope or work order that names this site and its plan, and the owner's or agency's written consent, before any digging or lifting. For a Safe Clean Water Program project, add the project's name. Write both at the top of your proof. With no signed scope, stop.
- Check the current flow advisory before starting work on the reach this job's title names.
- Photograph the arundo-infested reach before starting, working from the established bank or bike path.
- Cut the arundo stalks with loppers or a folding saw.
- Bag or stage the cut arundo material for disposal and photograph it.
- Plant native riparian species at the cleared spots.
- Log the species and count of natives replanted.
- Photograph the reach after work from the same vantage as the before photo.
- Record the GPS location and submit the proof.
What counts as done
- Before photo of the arundo-infested reach
- After photo from matching vantage
- Native species/count replanting log
- Disposal photo for cut arundo material
- Scope: the project owner's signed scope or work order that names this site and its plan (and the Safe Clean Water Program project name, if there is one), dated before the first photo.
- Consent: the owner's or agency's written consent for this site, dated before the first photo.
- Sign-off: the project owner signs off the finished work in writing. 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.
- Care, agreed before you plant: write who waters this planting and for how long (the payer's establishment period; three years is the usual ask), and who replaces a plant that dies. With no named steward, do not plant.
- Capture: write the area you worked in square feet and the drainage area or capture volume in gallons that the project owner's scope gives for this site, next to the photos.
- Design basis: the feasibility study or design plan this site follows, named in the project owner's scope and written at the top of your proof.
- After the first real rain, photograph the same two points and write what the water did: where it ponded, where it ran and what it carried.
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.
What is promised, and what is not
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