Needed to burn some calories following yesterday’s festivities so a couple miles along Carnegie netted two bags and another 80ish pound of trash that, in this case, won’t make it to the waterways!!
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Welcome our newest #riverkeepersohio member Grant!
We hit the booms at Summit Lake and picked up a bag from the towpath. He earned his reward and shirt!!!
Clean-out of the Canal Boom
46 pounds of trash from this spot today. This is a demonstration of how we do this after a rain event.
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…
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!
Finally back out on Wolf Creek in Norton.
Mother Nature had been fighting us this winter with high water, ice, debris. Thanks to Julie Miller for granting access to this section of the creek. And, thank you to Norton Service Dept and Larry Hess for picking up our collected trash. These are two of our biggest hurdles to putting booms in. Permission for…
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!