public streets, river greenway paths and city parks, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Plant a native riparian buffer on a public bank of the Los Angeles River and the San Fernando groundwater basin.
Plant a native riparian buffer above the ordinary water line on a public bank near Los Angeles. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $280 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofwritten permission + 811 ticket + GPS polygon with bank length + before, after photos + species list by bank position + first year watering plan with a named steward
- Open until2027-11-13
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Plant a native riparian buffer above the ordinary water line on a public bank near Los Angeles. A shaded, rooted bank holds its own water, cools the reach and takes the first flush before it reaches the Los Angeles River and the San Fernando groundwater basin. On a public bank or floodplain terrace, with the owning authority's written permission and an honored 811 locate, set deep rooted grasses and sedges at the toe, shrubs mid bank, and small trees at the top, mulched, with a first year watering plan and a named steward. Work from the dry bank only; nothing is placed in the channel. For the payer: - Price: $280 per job, counted in plants set along the bank, 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 $280. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Start after the crew's safety orientation. Nothing potable is touched: open no pipe, turn no fitting and add no chemical. Work from the dry public bank with written permission and with a partner, never enter the channel, never work during high flow, and honor an 811 locate before digging; wear waterproof non-slip boots and cut-resistant waterproof gloves; the employer provides drinking water, shade and cool-down rests, and N95 masks when wildfire smoke puts the AQI at 151 or more.
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.
- Hand tools only, no digging deeper than 12 inches.
- No herbicide.
- 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.
Bring
- shovel / dibble bar
- native bare-root or plug plantings (locally sourced)
- erosion-control matting or willow stakes (bank-stabilization sites)
- loppers / hand saw (invasive removal)
- gloves + trash bags (litter pass)
- camera
- GPS-enabled phone
Steps
- 1. Walk the reach with the site plan (or the standing bioassessment/watershed-health finding, if one exists) and photograph the bank/buffer segment as found: bare soil, invasive cover, litter, erosion.
- 2. Clear invasive growth and litter from the planting zone by hand, bagging trash separately from green waste; leave native volunteers in place.
- 3. Plant native riparian species (or set willow stakes / erosion-control matting) at the spacing and depth the site plan calls for, working from the top of bank downward; water each planting in.
- 4. Stake or anchor any erosion-control matting so it will not lift in the next high-flow event, and mulch around new plantings kept clear of stems.
- 5. Photograph the finished segment from the matching vantage, record species/count or matting area installed, and note any follow-up watering the planting needs.
What counts as done
- The owning authority's written permission and the 811 locate ticket number, both dated before any digging
- A GPS polygon of the planted buffer with the bank length and the average width from the ordinary water line
- Before and after photos from the same vantage, and a species list with counts by bank position, all regionally native, with the nursery source
- The first year watering plan with the named steward, and the survival check date set for the following season
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
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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Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
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