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Clean air and water for Ottawa: restoring the Union hillside
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Union hillside needs $1,600 for saplings and equipment.
🇨🇦 K4X 7K5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1,433 views
The Union hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 95 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 84 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the district council, including native species selected by a local botanist.
The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade.
All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $1,600 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $470
• Tools and protective gear: $300
• Waste removal and skip hire: $600
• Signage and educational materials: $230
I never thought I'd be the one asking, and I'm grateful for every bit of support.
- Stéphane
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Hope this works out for you. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Blessings.
Best of luck. Looking forward to the next update. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Greetings from Heraklion
Shared it with a few friends. We're a small family in Ottawa but we're thinking of you. All the best.
Best of luck. Hope this works out for you. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money
Thanks for sharing this, Stéphane. Your post was clear and honest. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. All the best!
thinking of you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Blessings
sending love. Shared this with my family. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.