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

Build a bioswale that catches street runoff before it leaves Los Angeles, CA.

Cut and shape a shallow vegetated swale on the contour of a public strip 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 + GPS line with before, after photos + cross section with length, depth + species list + drawdown time after the first storm
Open until2027-11-13
Levelintermediate

All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Cut and shape a shallow vegetated swale on the contour of a public strip in Los Angeles. Street runoff in Los Angeles carries the first flush straight to the Los Angeles River and the San Fernando groundwater basin, and the recharge is lost with it. Work with the authority's written permission and an honored 811 locate: set a stone inlet where the sheet flow already arrives, amend the soil for infiltration, plant regionally native species that tolerate both flood and drought, and set the overflow so a big storm leaves safely. The swale is measured by how fast it draws down, not by how it looks the day it is planted. For the payer: - Price: $300 per job, counted in bioswales built, with storage in gallons. - 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 cuts a shallow swale along a public street strip, sets a stone inlet where the runoff arrives, and plants native species in the amended soil.
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 + GPS line with before, after photos + cross section with length, depth + species list + drawdown time 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. Work public land with no license asked, only the authority's written permission and an honored 811 locate first: hand tools only, no digging over 12 inches, and no herbicide; wear boots.

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.
Hi-vis on any road shoulder; work from the sidewalk, park or right-of-way, never in a travel lane.
Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for shovels, rock, cobble and heavy loads; leather gloves for blisters, rock 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

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

Bring

measuring tape
GPS phone
camera
trowel / probe
data sheet
gloves

Steps

1. Locate the GI asset; record GPS; identify the type (rain garden / bioswale / permeable pavement / tree filter).
2. Photograph the asset, its inlet, and its outlet/overflow.
3. Check the inlet and outlet for blockage (sediment, trash, mulch) and note whether flow can enter/leave freely.
4. Check for standing water and estimate whether it drains within the design window (typically <24-48h after rain); probe media if dry.
5. Assess vegetation/media condition and estimate sediment/trash accumulation depth.
6. Note erosion, bypass, or structural damage and list the maintenance needed.
7. Enter asset type, condition, inlet/outlet status, drainage observation, sediment level, maintenance needs, GPS, photos; sign.

What counts as done

The public authority's written permission and the 811 locate ticket number, both dated before any digging
A GPS line of the swale with before and after photos from the same vantage, and its length, top width and depth
Species list with counts, all regionally native, and the seed or nursery source
The drawdown time measured after the first storm or the first fill, with the date and the depth it started from
Sign-off: the project owner signs off the finished work in writing. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
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: measure the basin's length, width and depth, and write its storage volume in gallons (cubic feet times 7.48) and the drainage area it serves in square feet, from the project owner's scope or your own measure.
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.

The standard this serves

Green Stormwater Infrastructure. Green stormwater infrastructure is the city's way of handling rain the way a meadow does: rain gardens, planted swales, and permeable pavement that let a storm soak in instead of surging down a pipe. The EPA's inspection standard keeps these systems honest, because a neglected rain garden quietly stops working while still looking like a garden. Mastery is the inspector's eye: reading inlets, overflow, plants, and soil in a single practiced pass. This packet is one such inspection, one basin checked and one record filed, which is precisely how a thousand basins stay alive.

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

Pledge backing, free

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