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Union Creek cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew
Volunteers are restoring Union Creek in San Francisco; $2,000 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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Union Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This December, 104 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 158 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 $2,000 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $730
• Tools and protective gear: $390
• Waste removal and skip hire: $620
• Signage and educational materials: $260
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Derek.
Thinking of you. Hope you get there. My husband and I read this together. All the best.
Stay strong, Derek. Shared it with a few friends
So sorry you're going through this. I hope things turn around soon. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Take care
shared this with my family. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Thinking of you, Derek. Hope this works out for you
Gave what I could, wish it was more. After 13 years in teaching I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Love from Manchester.