A little bit of cleanup left over from yesterday.
4 bags about 80 pounds. These locations keep trash from making it into the Tuscarawas River.
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Monday rounds before the rains.
Managed to pull a couple bags of trash out and plan for more in the morning. Some areas capturing more than others but all are doing the job. Encampments are still active and growing notifications have been sent again. The big wheels move slow, patience.
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Michaela, my Cousin here from Germany, spent some time this weekend checking and cleaning booms. 3 bags of trash and another 60 pounds or should it be 27.22 kilograms, out of the waterways!
Wolf Creek in Norton today.
Bag of trash and passed the grasses on down stream. Ready for the rain! Using that rake you gifted Julie Ann Sweet-Buntin!
Sunday rains lead to some boom clean outs
About 100 pounds, at Summit Lake, Canal, Mud Run, Wolf Creek and wrapped up today with a new boom at Summit Lake! Bring on the Rain!
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…
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!
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.
An absorption boom was noticed by Dave Stoler at the storm sewer outfall on the Tuscarawas river below the Wolf Creek trailhead.
He did not notice any substance in the water. Out of caution and past experiences especially in this location, we reported to OEPA and received a quick reply. Turns out, last week a Kimball truck had a hydraulic line issue and spilled a couple gallons of fluid on the ground upstream of this location. There…