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Restoring the Maple canal: a volunteer-led project in Dallas
Volunteers are restoring the Maple canal in Dallas; $2,450 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States734 views
The Maple canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 62 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 157 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 $2,450 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $750
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,400
• Signage and educational materials: $300
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
Updates from Christian
Thank you all. We're at 1% now ($36). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.
- Jorge Flávio Correia 🇧🇷 · $41
- Sneha M. Acharya 🇮🇳 · $20
- Melek Selin Ünal 🇹🇷 · $20
“Best of luck. Thought of Christian all day after reading this. - Üsküdar”
- Zain Fahad Ismail 🇵🇰 · $16
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Stay strong. Hope this works out for you. Greetings from Curitiba.
Thinking of you and your family, Christian. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Take care
Best of luck, Christian. Your post was clear and honest. God bless.