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Restoring Lotus Creek: a volunteer-led project in Fresno
Help us clean and replant Lotus Creek before the November planting window closes.
🇺🇸 Fresno, California, United States1,345 views
Lotus Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 81 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 64 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $2,500 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,350
• Tools and protective gear: $660
• Waste removal and skip hire: $260
• Signage and educational materials: $230
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
Updates from Rey
Thank you all. We're at 18% now ($449). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
- John T. Guerrero 🇺🇸 · $30
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $25
“All the best. Hope the November deadline works out. - Davao City”
- Benjamin B. Russell 🇺🇸 · $25
“All the best. Been where you are, it gets better. - Oakland”
- Laurent Quentin Noel 🇫🇷 · $50
- Benjamin Dean 🇨🇦 · $100
- Ryan M. Martinez 🇵🇭 · $75
- Alejandro H. Benítez 🇺🇸 · $10
“Happy to help. From Chandler with love.”
- José Rafael Marques 🇧🇷 · $40
“Best of luck. Only $40 but hope it helps. - Santos”
- Henry Heinz Hofmann 🇩🇪 · $50
- Ashok E. Mehra 🇮🇳 · $3
“Sending love. Thought of Rey all day after reading this. - Nashik”
- Jonathan Stephens 🇦🇺 · $35.50
- Idowu Sade Yakubu 🇳🇬 · $50
- Irena Paulina Kalinowski 🇵🇱 · $28.50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
- Apichart Krit Saetang 🇹🇭 · $10
- Anonymous 🇵🇰 · $100
- Rohit T. Wagh 🇮🇳 · $25
- Arthur Adam Moulin 🇫🇷 · $100
“You got this. My sister told me about this one. - Saint-Denis”
- Gabriel E. Nelson 🇦🇺 · $5
- Rukhsar Afshan Butt 🇵🇰 · $25
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wishing you the best, Rey. More neighborhoods should do this.
sending strength, Rey. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.
Hope this works out for you. Put this on a community board in Bogor this morning. Thinking of Fresno.
Thinking of you and your family, Rey. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.
Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My father had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Love from Pasig.
You're not alone. This could happen to any of us. After 25 years in retail I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Take care.
wishing you peace, Rey. Shared it with a few friends. Greetings from Sydney.
Sending love, Rey. Looking forward to the next update. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. All the best.
You're not alone. Looking forward to the next update. Don't give up
so sorry you're going through this, Rey. Shared this with my family. God bless.
projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I'm in social work myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you.
hang in there, Rey. More neighborhoods should do this. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.