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

Plant a rain garden that takes roof runoff into the ground.

Shape and plant a shallow bioretention bed below a downspout at a public building in Los Angeles. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $300 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • Proofwritten permission + 811 ticket number + GPS polygon with before, after photos + roof area served + species list with counts + drawdown check after the first storm
  • Open until2027-11-13
  • Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Shape and plant a shallow bioretention bed below a downspout at a public building in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles the rain that lands on a public roof mostly leaves by pipe and is lost, while the Los Angeles River and the San Fernando groundwater basin goes without. Work with the building steward's written permission and an honored 811 locate at a school, library or civic building: the basin sized to the roof area it takes, the soil loosened and amended, regionally native deep rooted species planted, mulched, and an overflow path set so a big storm leaves the way it always did. Nothing is plumbed and no pipe is cut; the water arrives the way it already arrives. For the payer: - Price: $300 per job, counted in rain gardens planted, with roof area served. - Likely payer: Measure W, the Safe Clean Water Program, through the project owner.

Offer to pay $300. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A worker with a shovel and a rake shapes a shallow basin below a public building's downspout, loosens and amends the soil, and plants native species with mulch around them.

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
$300 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
written permission + 811 ticket number + GPS polygon with before, after photos + roof area served + species list with counts + drawdown check after the first storm

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

Level
intermediate
Open until
2027-11-13
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, only the steward's written permission and an honored 811 locate first: hand tools, no digging over 12 inches, ground level only, and no pipe cut or re-routed.

The full safety list for this job:

  • This program does not test drinking water; any drinking water question routes to a certified laboratory and the local health department.
  • Ground level only, never a ladder and never a roof.
  • Any change to the building's drainage routes to the owner's licensed crew.
  • No herbicide.
  • Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: sturdy closed-toe boots for shovel and tool strikes on rough ground; leather-palm gloves for thorns, glass and soil contact.
  • 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.

Bring

  • GPS phone and camera
  • measuring tape and a marked stake or grade rod
  • shovel, mattock, rake and a wheelbarrow for the planting rung
  • stiff brush, wet vacuum and clean joint aggregate for the permeable surface rung
  • a marked container and a stopwatch for the timed pour
  • hi-vis vest, gloves, and the 811 locate ticket before any digging

Steps

  1. 1. Confirm authority before anything else: the owning agency named, the written permission in hand, and for any digging an honored 811 locate ticket recorded with its number and date.
  2. 2. For an observation packet, walk the public perimeter of each basin and record a GPS waypoint and a dated photo, a wet or dry call with the fraction of the floor holding water stated as an estimate, the inlet and outlet condition, and any public staff gauge reading transcribed with its units. Do not enter the basin and do not touch an inlet structure.
  3. 3. For a bioretention packet, find where the water already arrives, size the basin to the roof or pavement area it will take, and mark the polygon before cutting. The water must arrive the way it already arrives: no pipe is cut, joined or re-routed.
  4. 4. Shape the basin no deeper than 12 inches, loosen and amend the floor, set a stone splash pad at the inlet, and set the overflow so a storm larger than the design leaves on the path it already used.
  5. 5. Plant regionally native deep rooted species at spacing, mulch to the specified depth without burying the crowns, and photograph from the same two vantage points used before the work.
  6. 6. For a permeable surface packet, run a timed pour at a marked spot before touching anything: a measured volume of water, the seconds to drain, both written down. Then sweep and vacuum, hand clear the joints of packed fines, top up with the specified clean aggregate, and repeat the timed pour at the same marked spot.
  7. 7. Prove the outcome rather than the effort: for a basin, a photograph showing drawdown within 48 hours of the first fill; for a permeable surface, the before and after pour times side by side.

What counts as done

  • The building steward's written permission and the 811 locate ticket number, both dated before any digging
  • A GPS polygon of the bed with before and after photos from the same two vantage points
  • The roof area the downspout serves and the finished basin area and depth, with how the sizing was reasoned
  • Species list with counts, all regionally native, the nursery source, and a photo showing the basin drawn down within 48 hours of the first storm or the first watering
  • 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.
  • 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.

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

What is promised, and what is not

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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.

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