Beautiful Sunday morning walk along the towpath and around Summit Lake enjoying this nice weather checking booms.
We are starting to see some visible fruits of our labors with the booms.
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Met Bob along the east side of Summit Lake today and collected about 55 pounds of trash from the booms on that side following yesterday’s rain.
Will hit the west side tomorrow along with Mud Run and Wolf Creek! Thanks Summit Metro Parks for picking up my bags!
Exactly 1 year ago today
Nobel Oil dumped 1000 gallons of used motor oil into the Tuscrawaras River when transferring from their tanker truck into a railcar at the P-C Sales transfer station in Barberton and the resulting #disasteronthetuscarawas polluted the environment for miles, killing countless wildlife and affecting many more. We monitored the cleanup for the next 11 weeks…
New boom deployed in Norton on Wolf Creek!
This is a 5 minute video showing the process of building and installing a boom. We anticipate a pretty good volume of trash collected here and very grateful to Julie Miller and her husband for giving access to this location and the City of Norton who will be picking up our collected trash!
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…
Sunday Funday!
Thank you Stephanie for the gift card and thank you mystery person for the new chest waders and two boxes of always needed trash bags! During the last video I found that my waders were starting to leak and this came in at a perfect time. As you can see in the pictures, there’s lots…
The afternoon of November 3, 2024, my wife and I strolled along Lake Anna as we often do. We immediately noticed an algal bloom on the water. This is about the same time as the bloom occurred last year.
I took photos and reported it to the OEPA per protocol. Took them a bit to get back to me with the response that the lake is private and will not take action but provided me with another link to report through another agency and I did that. Have not heard anything to the time…