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Clean streets and rivers for Galle: restoring Pioneer Creek
Volunteers are restoring Pioneer Creek in Galle; $450 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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Pioneer Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This April, 57 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 94 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 $450 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $195
• Tools and protective gear: $95
• Waste removal and skip hire: $120
• Signage and educational materials: $40
Glad we found this place.
- Chaminda
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Rooting for you, Chaminda. Great idea, hope you get there.
Sending love. Great idea, hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.