Summit Lake

Was away for a week and the booms on Summit Lake worked the entire time I was gone, holding all the trash that was trying to get into the lake.
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Was away for a week and the booms on Summit Lake worked the entire time I was gone, holding all the trash that was trying to get into the lake.

Today’s video is cruising around the lake picking up that trash! The system works! Thanks again to Summit Metro Parks for picking up the trash on the east side and Ohio Erie Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition for grabbing the trash on the west side! Oh, and Thank You to whomever cleaned up some of…

Three new trash booms deployed this morning!
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Three new trash booms deployed this morning!

First on a property owned by Garland, supported by Let’s Grow Akron and the Black Hawk Foundation. Decades of trash unmitigated from storm sewers dumped into a wetland, until today! The next two are on the south side of Summit Lake that was recently cleaned up by a group of volunteers through Ward 9 Councilperson…

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…