MacArthur Park Lake, Westlake, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Plant native shoreline vegetation, zone 2 -- MacArthur Park Lake, Westlake, Los Angeles, CA 90057.
A planter on the path at MacArthur Park Lake sets native sedge, rush and willow into holes along the bare, turf-mowed shoreline edge, then photographs the planted zone with a camera. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $380 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofbefore/after photos + native-plant list + planting-density log + GPS boundary
- Open until2027-02-09
- Leveladvanced
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Plant native sedge and rush along shoreline zone 2 at MacArthur Park Lake in Los Angeles, CA. The condition walk is expected to find a bare, turf-mowed fringe here with no native cover holding the bank or filtering runoff, and the planting restores real habitat structure at the water's edge. For the payer: - Price: $380 per job, counted in plants set along the edge, 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
Work only from the path, boardwalk or firm bank with the agency's written permission, a second person and a life jacket near deep water; never wade into the lake, soft mud, channel or tidal water. Tidal marsh and river-mouth sites are not this job.
The full safety list for this job:
- Work only from the path or established bank edge; never wade into the lake or soft mud.
- Keep the second person in sight and agree a check-in time. A life jacket is worn wherever a fall could reach deep water. The managing agency's trained crew plants tidal marsh and river-mouth sites at low tide on its own plan. Marsh and lake mud is soft and can trap a leg. A fall can put a person into untreated, algae-bearing water carrying bacteria, leptospirosis and, in some lakes, toxic algae: keep hands from the mouth, wash before eating, cover cuts, and stay off the water if the manager posts a health notice. Tides, run-off after rain and release flows change the water in minutes: read the tide table and the forecast, and stop at any rise. Plants go at the elevation the managing biologist marked for each species, since a plant set too low drowns and too high dries. Keep dogs and children out; do not touch nests or wildlife.
- Orientation to the plan before the first plant: who to call, what to stop for (Title 8 section 3203).
- A life jacket wherever a fall could reach deep water, a second person on firm ground, a check-in time (Title 8 section 1602).
- Marsh and lake edges have no shade: water, rest breaks, watch each other (Title 8 section 3395).
- Check the air quality index; at 151 or more the crew is told and offered respirators (Title 8 section 5141.1).
- Needles and glass on park edges: tongs and a sharps container, never bare hands (Title 8 section 5193).
- 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.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- dibble or hand trowel
- knee pads
- life jacket
- tide table
- rubber boots and spare socks
- hi-vis if the path meets a road
Steps
- Walk the shoreline zone this job's title names and take the before photo of the bare, turf-mowed edge.
- List the native sedge, rush and willow species to be planted in the zone.
- From the path or established bank edge, open a planting hole for each plant and set it into the zone.
- Backfill and firm the soil around each planted stem, matching the planting density planned for the zone.
- Record the planting-density log for the zone.
- Photograph the cleared area, then confirm the native plant list and the elevation marks against the ones the managing agency supplies, not by your own judgement.
- Use a dibble or hand trowel from firm ground and set each native plug at the marked elevation. Ask the manager for irrigation and lighting lines in a park, and call 811 where a hole goes deeper than a plug.
- Water in thoroughly from the manager's hose bib, never from the lake. Put no mulch at tidal sites; at a lake edge lay a thin layer clear of the stems.
- Take the after photo of the planted zone.
- Record the GPS boundary of the planted zone.
What counts as done
- Before photo of the bare/turf-mowed edge zone
- Native sedge/rush/willow plant list suited to a Southern California urban lake shoreline
- Planting-density log matched to the zone
- After photo of the planted zone + GPS boundary
- The manager's written permission and contact.
- The plant list and elevation marks the manager gave.
- A dated planting log with the tide height or lake level.
- The GPS boundary as a polygon the manager can map.
- 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.
- Count: plants set along the edge, by species, written next to the photos.
- 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
Wetland Condition. Wetlands are the landscape's kidneys and nurseries at once: they filter the water, absorb the flood, and raise the young of half the creatures around them. The EPA's rapid assessment gives a trained visitor a way to grade one honestly: the plants present, the water's path, the soil, the wear at the edges. Mastery looks like walking a marsh and knowing, defensibly, how it is doing and what threatens it. This packet is one such visit, one wetland's condition recorded to the method. What is watched can be defended; unwatched wetlands quietly disappear.
What is promised, and what is not
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