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.
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A side benefit of having trash booms in the waterways and checking them regularly is you occasionally trap more than just trash.
OEPA did visit this boom today. We have not heard what this is exactly. When we know, we will share. Did get about 30 pounds of trash out.
Wolf Creek in Norton.
Flooding and ice broke the boom away as designed several weeks ago and today finally had the opportunity to put it back to work. Note, I do not have to get in the water for any of this, even when I forgot to hold the trow rope when I sent it sailing to the far…
Going a little stir crazy so thought I would go out and check booms.
I pose a challenge in the video that you might have fun with Sherry, my wife the author, would do well with this and be able to tell a story just by looking at those tracks of what the animals were doing. It’s not all trash out here.
Thank You Jennifer Parker Zylkor
Thank you Jennifer Parker Zylkor for the pic sticks and rope from our Amazon wish list! We are planning a small kids event in April with Summit Metro Parks at the Nature Center. We plan on building a couple trash booms to deploy there on Summit lake and to pick up some trash!
Above freezing day on Mud Run and managed to pull 65 pounds from the water.
In the video you see me using the most common tools for cleaning out booms. It took about 35 min in real time in part because of the snow and ice. I also made a trip to the Canal Boom just south of Summit Lake. That video will come tomorrow. You can see the oil…
I am so PROUD of my husband, James Carnahan aka Opa Runs Founder of Riverkeepers Ohio!! 🎉
It has been over a year long journey since the day I watched him leave for his favorite fishing spot one July morning, to receiving a panic call and texts with pictures of an oil covered fishing line, black oily water and wildlife covered in oil. He discovered and reported a major oil spill in…
Wounded! Could be the last boom cleanup for a while!
Just a little dialogue for the first part of the video and then some details on what is happening at this and some other trash booms. 1 bag about 25 pounds.
People often ask what Riverkeepers Ohio does over the winter…
…this is one of the things we do, clean our trash booms at Mud Run. 2.5 bags of trash, Chair, 5 Gallon bucket of something for close to 100 pounds. (Listen to the video for more details.)