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Myrtle Village Green Water Supply

Let the water flow so the gardens can grow!

Leader

Eddie Bricker

Location

638 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205

Impact areas

About the project

Myrtle Village Green (MVG) has been required to install a backflow preventer on our water source by the city. With the help of the community, we aim to raise funds to hire a plumber, purchase materials, and file the installation with the city to turn our water back on.

MVG is a space that many in our neighborhoods have worked for years, and some for nearly a decade to make into a true community space, which has come to be anchored around garden plots and green space. Free flowing water back to MVG will ensure another spring, summer, and autumn of community!

The Steps

  1. Filing / Plan approvals are ongoing prior to attaining funds.
  2. A licensed master plumber has been contacted and can commence work as soon as plans are approved and the site use contract is signed.
  3. Once funds are disbursed, materials can be purchased, and the plumber can begin work and receive payment.

Why we‘re doing it

Bedford-Stuyvesant and South Williamsburg sorely lack community-accessible green space.

MVG serves as a community gathering space, reprieve from the constant concrete and asphalt environment surrounding the community, and a source of fresh produce in the community through both privately and community maintained garden beds, including learning beds for local public school students, as well as a small scale farming operation.

$3,275.00 / $3,275.00