Protecting Ohio’s Waterways
for Future Generations
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Who Are the River Guardians Ohio?
Formed in 2023 as Riverkeepers Ohio, after the founder, James Carnahan aka OpaRuns, discovered and reported a major oil spill in the Tuscarawas River at the Wolf Creek Trailhead in Barberton, Ohio on July 6, 2023 while on his way to his favorite fishing hole.
Today, River Guardians Ohio, a 501(c) (3) are a group of people who care about our environment and want to help to keep our waterways clean for future generations. We do that by:
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This Saturday River Guardians Ohio will be doing a cleanup of Pigeon Creek upstream from 1395 Collier Road in Akron.
This will be part of a long term mitigation action by us. There will be a trash boom deployed so you can experience this in real time as we clear a few debris dams and begin the process of remediating this section of one or our urban watersheds. Come out between 830 and 11 to…
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