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Clean water and shade for Sacramento: restoring Acacia Beach
Volunteers are restoring Acacia Beach in Sacramento; $2,600 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States756 views
Acacia Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 44 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 51 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $2,600 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,550
• Waste removal and skip hire: $450
• Tools and protective gear: $600
Thanks for reading all this.
- Lawrence
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Lawrence.
Everything on the list is an amount I've been quoted or invoiced. native saplings and stakes comes first ($1,550) and I'll update the page as each thing gets paid. Thanks for looking so closely.
Sending love. Shared it with a few friends. I have a 5 year old who wants to send good wishes too.
Thanks for sharing this, Lawrence. Hope this works out for you. My husband and I read this together. Blessings
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Sacramento.
Thank you. If you're in Sacramento I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Thanks for looking so closely.
Sending love. Hope this works out for you. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Rooting for you, Lawrence. Shared it with a few friends. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
Sending love, Lawrence. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too