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Boom damage from a limb.
Ice to contend with here at Mud Run. Busted my butt on the way to the Canal boom (no video). 61 pounds. The flu had held me down the past week.

Getting ready to put in a boom up on the canal off Summit Lake
Canal Boom in place! 120 feet of trash catching magic deployed just south of Summit Lake that will help keep the lake cleaner. Thanks to Dave Stoler, Eric Fitch (thanks Pam for lending us your muscle) and Jerry Harris from Summit Metro Parks! (They help remove the trash we collect from some of our locations)….

OEPA back out again today.
Update is: There was a very large trash dam upstream just south of Wooster Rd. There was a large volume of oil in that dam but where that originated from is not known. In collaboration, the City of Akron, City of Barberton and the OEPA put in a hard boom downstream, crews entered the water…

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…

Update on the construction site on Summit Lake.
I followed up with OEPA stating what little they had done and today it appears the proper protection has been installed.