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Clean streams for Üsküdar: restoring Sycamore Beach

A neighborhood-led restoration of Sycamore Beach needs $500 for saplings and equipment.

🇹🇷 Türkiye760 views
Volkan Tarık Erdoğan
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Üsküdar
Sycamore Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 102 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 132 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. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $500 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $260 • Tools and protective gear: $110 • Waste removal and skip hire: $80 • Signage and educational materials: $50 With deep gratitude, Volkan
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  1. 16% there. I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Thank you.

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