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Riverkeepers latest video on their new YouTube channel @riverkeepersohio.
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…

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.

Had to pull out “the guns” for 253 pounds of trash this morning that made it downstream on Mud Run when our booms blew out from the flooding. (We repaired them yesterday).
We do have some fun and really appreciate the waves and words of encouragement from folks passing by. Tomorrow at 8 am, we will be on Summit Lake around the Nature Center adding secondary booms there. (Too much trash coming through the storm sewers on heavy rain events). A big Thank You to Summit Metro…

The afternoon of November 3, 2024, my wife and I strolled along Lake Anna as we often do. We immediately noticed an algal bloom on the water. This is about the same time as the bloom occurred last year.
I took photos and reported it to the OEPA per protocol. Took them a bit to get back to me with the response that the lake is private and will not take action but provided me with another link to report through another agency and I did that. Have not heard anything to the time…

I am so PROUD of my husband, James Carnahan aka Opa Runs Founder of Riverkeepers Ohio!! 🎉
It has been over a year long journey since the day I watched him leave for his favorite fishing spot one July morning, to receiving a panic call and texts with pictures of an oil covered fishing line, black oily water and wildlife covered in oil. He discovered and reported a major oil spill in…