Dave and I went for a walk around Summit Lake this morning to discuss the past year and some plans for next year as it relates to RiverKeepers Ohio and this pair of Bald Eagles joined our discussion to add a little motivation to our efforts.
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This big mess of trash is located in Mud Run across from the old Pops Chicken restaurant on Waterloo Rd, just before you cross the tracks towards the old Reiter daily and Wooster Rd. If you are a YouTube watcher, please subscribe to our new channel @riverkeepersohio for more videos that aren’t posted on Opa’s…
The canal boom just south of Summit Lake.
2 bags, 67 pounds not going into the lake. Sooo…there was so much microplastics here. I had to shake it out of the organics and scoop it with my hands. Sadly, two geese had perished some time earlier in the week and floated down to the boom. They were removed and reported to ODNR. Weather…
Construction site north of Summit Lake lacking mitigation to prevent the soils here from directly polluting the lake we are working so hard to clean up.
OEPA was notified Wednesday and responded yesterday that they would look into it. Rains today and tomorrow…the system works slow. Wouldn’t it be better if folks just did the right thing instead of waiting for someone to tell them?
Booms cleared, reset and back at work.
102 pounds in 4 bags. Thanks again to the Service Team at the City of Akron for picking up what we collect! With the weather warming, we will get to service some of the other booms soon and start deploying new ones in the near future. Not just the same old places.
Moved the booms at Mud Run
Because moving water is ever changing, we need to adjust. Dave and I were talking after the move how full of trash this area was last year when we started this. Now, we almost always see fish and wildlife here. Does make us feel good.