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Clean streets and rivers for Joliet: restoring the Cedar canal
Volunteers are restoring the Cedar canal in Joliet; $2,500 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇺🇸 Illinois, United States1,116 views
The Cedar canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 62 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 174 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 $2,500 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,450
• Tools and protective gear: $510
• Waste removal and skip hire: $450
• Signage and educational materials: $90
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Natalia
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Thinking of you and your family. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. God bless.
Hope you get there. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. God bless
more neighborhoods should do this. Thinking of Joliet.
Hope things get better soon. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Dublin
Sending strength, Natalia. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes