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Clean air and water for Sacramento: restoring Baobab Beach

Volunteers are restoring Baobab Beach in Sacramento; $2,400 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States1,250 views

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Baobab Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 81 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 106 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $2,400 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,200 • Tools and protective gear: $380 • Waste removal and skip hire: $650 • Signage and educational materials: $170 Thank you so much.

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Updates from Nolan

Good news. Because of your gifts ($336 in total) I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Update from Sacramento: we've started the first stage. We're at 11% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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Hasan Noman Ghosh
Thinking of you and your family. Looking forward to the next update. My neighbor in Shinjuku donated after I showed her your page. Love from Shinjuku
Yogita H. Vora
Hang in there, Nolan. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of Sacramento.
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Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Thinking of Sacramento.

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