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Restoring the Pioneer canal: a volunteer-led project in San Diego
Volunteers are restoring the Pioneer canal in San Diego; $2,100 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇺🇸 92122, San Diego, California, United States2,264 views
The Pioneer canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 104 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 86 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $2,100 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $940
• Tools and protective gear: $470
• Waste removal and skip hire: $480
• Signage and educational materials: $210
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You're not alone, Eleanor. This could happen to any of us. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of San Diego
sending good thoughts, Eleanor. Looking forward to the next update. Thinking of San Diego.
Hang in there. Your post was clear and honest. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Blessings.