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public streets, river greenway paths and city parks, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Publish the monthly public gauge receipt.

Read the month's flow at the nearest USGS gauges upstream and downstream of Los Angeles. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $80 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • Proofgauge site numbers + the month's daily values + percent of long term median + one dated bank photo with GPS
  • Open until2026-12-13
  • Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Read the month's flow at the nearest USGS gauges upstream and downstream of Los Angeles. the Los Angeles River and the San Fernando groundwater basin is gauged in public and almost nobody reads it. Until a worker turns the month's record into a receipt, it stays unpublished. Record mean daily flow or stage, the month's minimum and maximum, the percent of the long term median for that month, and any day the gauge went to zero or to flood stage. Then walk to one public bank vantage and photograph the water on the day the receipt closes, so the number and the river agree in the same document.

Offer to pay $80. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A worker copies the month's daily flow values from a USGS gauge page into a table, then stands on a public bridge sidewalk and photographs the water below with a phone.

A description of this kind of work, not a record that it happened here.

Where
public streets, river greenway paths and city parks, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. Open the map
Pay
$80 proposed

This job is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price, not money held for the worker. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash: recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof
gauge site numbers + the month's daily values + percent of long term median + one dated bank photo with GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level
entry: anyone can start here
Open until
2026-12-13
Posted by
0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

Safety, read before you claim

Nothing potable is touched: open no pipe, turn no fitting and add no chemical. No license is asked: photograph from the bank, a bridge sidewalk or a park overlook, never enter the channel or work during high flow, and wear hi-vis on any road shoulder.

The full safety list for this job:

  • Public ground only. Never enter a plant, a well house, a vault or a meter pit; never operate a hydrant, a valve or a gate; never open any enclosure. Anything behind a fence or a lid belongs to the utility's own crews.
  • This program does not test drinking water; any drinking water question routes to a certified laboratory and the local health department.
  • Hi-vis on any road shoulder; work from the sidewalk, park or right-of-way, never in a travel lane.
How this work is done

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

  • laptop with a spreadsheet
  • the state or district water rights and withdrawal registry, open in a browser
  • the utility's published monthly or annual water reports
  • USGS National Water Information System site pages for the local gauges and monitoring wells
  • a hashing tool for the anchor step
  • GPS phone and camera for the one bank or gauge photo

Steps

  1. 1. Name the system and the source exactly as the agency names them, then list every record type that could exist for it: water right, permit, contract, registered withdrawal, diversion order, compact allocation.
  2. 2. Search each registry for the system by name and by any parent utility or district, and record for every hit the issuing agency, the filing reference, the allowed volume in the record's own units, and the date of the version read. Where a search returns nothing, write not found and write down the search that was run.
  3. 3. Pull the volume actually taken for the reporting period and LABEL each figure at the point of entry: utility report, agency registry, owner meter, or no data. Never convert units without showing the conversion in the sheet, and never fill a gap with an average.
  4. 4. Pull the published record for every public gauge and monitoring well within reach, keep the full series rather than the last reading, and state a trend per site with its slope and the period the slope was computed over.
  5. 5. Set allowed volume, taken volume and the same period one year earlier side by side, and write one plain sentence saying which way the place is going and which figure in the sheet is the weakest.
  6. 6. Publish the sheet and the sentence in full, hash the published file, and anchor the hash via vealth.net/anchor before handing it to anyone.

What counts as done

  • The USGS site number and name of each gauge used, with the parameter read and its units
  • The month's daily values with the minimum, maximum and mean stated, and any zero flow or flood stage day named
  • The month's mean as a percent of the published long term median for that month, or marked unavailable
  • A dated photo of the water from a named public bank or bridge vantage, with a GPS waypoint, taken on the day the receipt closes

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

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.

Open, but not claimable yet. restricted: permit-required. Regulated or permit-required work cannot be claimed on this rail yet. It stays readable; voting and pledging are free, and funding is separate from claiming.

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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