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Clean streets and rivers for Miami: restoring the Cedar canal
Help us clean and replant the Cedar canal before the October planting window closes.
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The Cedar canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 74 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 142 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $1,750 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,400
• Signage and educational materials: $120
• Tools and protective gear: $230
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Colton
Updates from Colton
Thank you all. We're at 66% now ($1,156). I'm honestly stunned. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes.
Update from Miami: we've started the first stage. We're at 31% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Manikandan P. Prabhu 🇮🇳 · $5
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
“Hope it all works out. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Louisville”
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $10
- Manuel J. Rivera 🇨🇴 · $100
- Mim Anika Banerjee 🇧🇩 · $30
- Maryam Hira Lashari 🇵🇰 · $13
- Levi W. Allen 🇺🇸 · $250
“Only $250 but hope it helps. - Bowling Green”
- Lilian Peace Adeyemi 🇳🇬 · $50
“Blessings. Thought of Colton all day after reading this. - Kaduna”
- Mariana B. Cabrera 🇺🇸 · $75
“Take care of yourselves. I'm in Arlington, thinking of you.”
- Njeri Rose Kyagulanyi 🇹🇿 · $15
- Eduardo K. Gómez 🇨🇴 · $50
- Andrea D. Carrillo 🇺🇸 · $42
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $100
- Emmanuel G. Villanueva 🇵🇭 · $10
- Winda Dinda Maulana 🇮🇩 · $35.50
“Hope it all works out. Hope the October deadline works out. - Kediri”
- Wafa Sawsan Darwish 🇺🇸 · $10
- Odette Isabelle Noel 🇨🇦 · $30
- Courtney N. Jordan 🇺🇸 · $11
- Charlotte Charlotte Neumann 🇩🇪 · $10
- Noreen Nimra Mughal 🇵🇰 · $10
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Rooting for you, Colton. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. God bless.
Your post was clear and honest. After 30 years in customer support I know how hard it's to ask for anything.
Rooting for you, Colton. Shared this with my family. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out. All the best.