Author: James "Opa" Carnahan

I met Matt a couple years ago while covering the disastrous oil spill on the Tuscarawas in Barberton.
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I met Matt a couple years ago while covering the disastrous oil spill on the Tuscarawas in Barberton.

I learned a lot from both the accident and the man. At the time, Matt was just talking about the new Eco-Maxx facility he was building in Canton. When the time came for the ribbon cutting, he invited me down and I witnessed that he practices what he preaches. Here is a video that speaks…

Nature Club, a group of kids through Summit Metro Parks, helped us install a boom and picked up trash.
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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…

Already over a TON of trash removed at our booms this year!!!

Already over a TON of trash removed at our booms this year!!!

It has been a busy week from a site survey for a private land owner dealing with decades of trash collected from a storm sewer, a new temporary boom downtown for the Bicentennial event that may or may not happen Saturday (we pulled about 120 pounds out of the short stretch of the canal by…

RiverKeepers Ohio Merchandise is here!!

RiverKeepers Ohio Merchandise is here!!

Help spread the word about the work RiverKeepers Ohio is doing by wearing RKO merchandise and at the same time, a portion of each sale will go towards purchasing supplies to clean up trash and install/maintain booms. Go to: https://www.letterperfectakron.com/riverkeepers Or for more ways to help go to: https://riverkeepersohio.com/ways-to-help/ Thank you to Karen Freeman and…