Amazon Wish List Unboxing!
This is take 2 as the original video was lost. So very grateful for the support! Also in the video; Socks, River and Keeper. There is a whole story on the later kittens.
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Sunday Funday!
Thank you Stephanie for the gift card and thank you mystery person for the new chest waders and two boxes of always needed trash bags! During the last video I found that my waders were starting to leak and this came in at a perfect time. As you can see in the pictures, there’s lots…
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…
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.
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.
RiverKeepers Ohio now has a YouTube Channel! @riverkeepersohio
Not much content yet but there will be more to come so PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! Our first video, is a short video created by Opa Runs, is a summary of the events that happened during the July 6, 2023 oil spill in the Tuscarawas River at the Wolf Creek Trailhead in Barberton, Ohio when 1000 Gallons…
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…
No original source of the oil found, however, OEPA did clean up where it was collecting upstream at a trash dam (other side of Waterloo rd).
What we are seeing here is the residual. Fire department placed the soft booms with our trash booms to collect that. (Some placement adjustment is in order and being handled). Sorry for the late update, flu had knocked me on my can.
Contamination is still present.
Booms, ours and theirs, are containing the vast majority. Steady increase in volume. Will get back out Monday to put eyes on it and follow up with OEPA for next steps.
I could smell it before I saw it…
OEPA has been on site and taking action with containment and investigation of the source. Excellent work by both the OEPA and City of Akron for their quick response and action.