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2024 Year in review for Riverkeepers Ohio
From designing our trash boom, getting it approved by ODNR at the beginning of the year, to coordinating with Summit Metro Parks, City of Akron, City of Norton; working with property owners for access, South Street Ministries and Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition, who help pull out some of the trash collected in the booms. Our…

Site of our next boom!
Summit Lake, Kenmore side. 72” outfall that has been dumping storm sewer trash directly into the lake for decades. This STOPS next week! Thank you to the City of Akron, the Ohio & Erie Canal Way, South Street Ministries, Ward 9 Councilperson – Tina Boyes, Summit Metro Parks and all the people that support and…

We have a new member, Jennifer, to the Riverkeepers Ohio club.
Along with Jennifer, Eric Fitch joined us today too and we pulled 15 bags at 177 pounds of trash from Mud Run keeping it out of the Gulf! In the video they share their thoughts. Thank you both and Dave for turning this 2+ hour job into about an hour.


What is the future of Riverkeepers Ohio?
Our Youth! This video shows Dave Stoler and I along with Sherry Carnahan, spending the afternoon having a group of kids in a program at the Nature Center with Summit Metro Parks building and installing their own trash booms. We also did some cleanup along Summit Lake and explained to them how most of the…

Here for the ribbon cutting to this new facility in Canton.
This is the company that did the cleanup of the oil spill of a thousand gallons in the Tuscarawas River in July of 2023 that lead to the formation of RiverKeepers Ohio! I hope to go live a little later, will post below. Live footage…