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Picked up materials for the new boom on Summit Lake tomorrow morning!
This boom will be located right in front of the Summit Metro Parks Nature Center at the end of Ira.

Mud Run… Riverkeepers Ohio first boom location
This stretch collects a lot of trash before it gets lost in Tuscarawas, however, the water quality seems to be degrading since last year this time. We are working with agencies to figure this out and turn it back around.

Dave and I had planned on cleaning the boom at Mud Run this morning…
Dave and I had planned on cleaning the boom at Mud Run this morning and the rain started so I took advantage of that and came down to check the booms on Summit Lake and this is the result of that.

This just hurts my heart
This just hurts my heart and why I am so motivated to clean up Summit Lake and to stop the trash from getting in here.

Exactly 1 year ago today
Nobel Oil dumped 1000 gallons of used motor oil into the Tuscrawaras River when transferring from their tanker truck into a railcar at the P-C Sales transfer station in Barberton and the resulting #disasteronthetuscarawas polluted the environment for miles, killing countless wildlife and affecting many more. We monitored the cleanup for the next 11 weeks…

First rain in weeks yesterday and the results on two of the booms on the east side of Summit Lake…
36 pounds of bottles, cans, bags, styrofoam to name a few, all from storm sewers.