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Clean streams for Southampton: restoring Lotus Creek
A neighborhood-led restoration of Lotus Creek needs $1,850 for saplings and equipment.
🇬🇧 Southampton, England, United Kingdom1,427 views
Lotus Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 81 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 85 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 $1,850 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $160
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,350
• Waste removal and skip hire: $340
Thanks for being kind about this.
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Wishing you the best. Your post was clear and honest. Wish I lived closer to Mumbai so I could bring a meal. God bless.
Hope it all works out. Shared it with a few friends. My neighbor in Ann Arbor donated after I showed her your page. God bless
I hope things turn around soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Southampton.
Rooting for you. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Take care.
Shared this with my family. My sister had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Thinking of Southampton
stay strong. Great idea, hope you get there.
Thanks for sharing this. Your post was clear and honest. Thinking of Southampton