About 30 pounds that helped the total for the weekend of about 300 pounds. It is warming up, life is waking up and we are busy. I met Kaylie and Jenna at Summit Lake Sunday, shown at the end of the video, they are doing much like #riverkeepersohio with taking it upon themselves to make…
It has been a busy week from a site survey for a private land owner dealing with decades of trash collected from a storm sewer, a new temporary boom downtown for the Bicentennial event that may or may not happen Saturday (we pulled about 120 pounds out of the short stretch of the canal by…
Help spread the word about the work RiverKeepers Ohio is doing by wearing RKO merchandise and at the same time, a portion of each sale will go towards purchasing supplies to clean up trash and install/maintain booms. Go to: https://www.letterperfectakron.com/riverkeepers Or for more ways to help go to: https://riverkeepersohio.com/ways-to-help/ Thank you to Karen Freeman and…
Hard to believe how far we have come in such a very short time. Thank You ALL that have supported our efforts!
To my knowledge (I certainly could be wrong) this is a first. Mark Greer of the Akron Bicentennial Commission, Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition, Dan Rice and his Team, City of Akron and Riverkeepers Ohio have put together a plan that will truly leave the waterway cleaner when we are done than what is there…
Good haul today 8 bags and 130 pounds. We show you in this video how we weigh the bags. Not seen is a large couch cushion from the homeless encampment upstream on the other side of Waterloo that was too heavy with water to haul up the bank. Will let it dry out and get…
You would be surprised at what we catch in our booms. Today we pulled 130-150 pounds of trash that would have flowed into Summit Lake. Lots of folks using the towpath and we must say, “Thank You for all the kinds words of encouragement!” It really does help. Again, thank you Summit Metro Parks for…
This one is at the bottom of Trail Ave. Managed 4 bags at about 85 pounds. Thanks Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition and Summit Metro Parks for picking up our trash! Best part of the day, meeting and talking with people out enjoying the trail!