Protecting Ohio’s Waterways
for Future Generations
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Who Are the Riverkeepers Ohio?
Formed in 2023 after the founder, James Carnahan aka OpaRuns, discovered and reported a major oil spill in the Tuscarawas River at the Wolf Creek Trailhead in Barberton, Ohio on July 6, 2023 while on his way to his favorite fishing hole.
Riverkeepers Ohio are a group of people who care about our environment and want to help to keep our waterways clean for future generations. We do that by picking up trash in and along the waterways, looking for ways to mitigate the trash and better ways to collect the trash. We continually watch for any kind of pollution or abuse of the waterways and report what we find when necessary.
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Nature Club, a group of kids through Summit Metro Parks, helped us install a boom and picked up trash.
About 30 pounds that helped the total for the weekend of about 300 pounds. It is warming up, life is waking up and we are busy. I met Kaylie and Jenna at Summit Lake Sunday, shown at the end of the video, they are doing much like #riverkeepersohio with taking it upon themselves to make…
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