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Clean streams for Oakland: restoring Union Creek

A neighborhood-led restoration of Union Creek needs $3,350 for saplings and equipment.

🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States4,286 views
Kaylee W. Dixon
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Oakland
Union Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 71 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 78 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $3,350 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,600 • Tools and protective gear: $730 • Waste removal and skip hire: $950 • Signage and educational materials: $70 Glad we found this place. - Kaylee
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Kaylee

  1. We're at 61% thanks to 46 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.

  2. 31% there. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Thank you.

  3. Good news. Because of your gifts ($574 in total) I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

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  • Uğur Mehmet Acar 🇹🇷 · $10

    “Rooting for you. Thought of Kaylee all day after reading this. - Üsküdar”

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    “Blessings. I'm in Lethbridge, thinking of you. - Lethbridge”

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    “Sending love. Thought of Kaylee all day after reading this. - Madrid”

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    “All the best. My brother told me about this one. - Medina”

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    “Sending love. Thought of Kaylee all day after reading this. - Thika”

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  • Beau S. Grant

    You're not alone, Kaylee. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. After 12 years in engineering I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Love from Latina.

    • Joseph Tumusiime KigoziAddress verifiedPhoto verified

      Good luck, Kaylee. Great idea, hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.

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