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Already over a TON of trash removed at our booms this year!!!
It has been a busy week from a site survey for a private land owner dealing with decades of trash collected from a storm sewer, a new temporary boom downtown for the Bicentennial event that may or may not happen Saturday (we pulled about 120 pounds out of the short stretch of the canal by…
Heavy rain with some lightning!!
Can’t get in the water now but can check how booms are working! We did get 20 pounds out of the Nature Club’s boom that the kids built and installed last week outside the Nature Center. The new RiverKeepers Ohio members! Great Job! Thanks Thanks Summit Metro Parks!
Wolf Creek this morning! A steady flow of sheen flowing at the confluence with the Tuscarawas river.
Dave noted it before I arrived and we watched for a few minutes. We looked upstream for a possible source but with such limited access to the water in this section, we found nothing. We did make a report to the OEPA. Will post with any follow-up. Update: 3 June 4pm, OEPA has contacted me…
Sometimes ya just have to put it out there to help make it happen!
This is one of the MAJOR sources of trash coming into Summit Lake. I was out surveying outfalls from my kayak today. We already have two booms on the lake and with some collaboration, we should be deploying a few more on and around the lake soon. Did pull a bag of trash today.
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.