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Clean water and shade for Ottawa: restoring Unity Beach

Volunteers are restoring Unity Beach in Ottawa; $1,250 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada1,289 views
Inès Masson
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Ottawa
Unity Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 33 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 120 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 $1,250 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $470 • Signage and educational materials: $240 • Tools and protective gear: $540 Thanks for reading all this. - Inès
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Inès

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 76% funded and the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled.

  2. We're at 22% thanks to 9 of you. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. More news soon.

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  • Garima D. BajpaiQuestion

    How is Inès doing now?

    • Sathish Kumar

      Your post was clear and honest. Wish I lived closer to Ciudad de México so I could bring a meal. All the best.

      • Priyanka B. Ramachandran

        Sending love, Inès. Great idea, hope you get there. Wish I lived closer to Berlin so I could bring a meal. God bless.

        • Eri Misaki Tamura

          Best of luck, Inès. More neighborhoods should do this. My neighbor had a similar thing happen so this one hit home

          • Pavithra Swamy

            Hope it all works out, Inès. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. All the best

            • Craig Tucker

              Keep going, Inès. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Ottawa.

              • Nikhil E. Garg

                Thinking of you and your family, Inès. It takes guts to ask. Well done. After 28 years in accounting I know how hard it's to ask for anything

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