Protecting Ohio’s Waterways
for Future Generations
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Who Are the River Guardians Ohio?
Formed in 2023 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.
River Guardians Ohio, formerly Riverkeepers Ohio, 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 picking up trash in and along the waterways, looking for ways to mitigate the trash and better ways to collect the trash. We continually watch for any kind of pollution or abuse of the waterways and report what we find when necessary.
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I was out of town on vacation last week but River Guardians Ohio was hard at work.
Johnny Ringo checked booms and collecting trash. Kat Donaldson was also on boom patrol and too collected trash as well as doing some survey work at the Cordova Project area. Storms came through last Saturday, there was one boom that wasn’t checked, Mud Run. It did what the booms do, held trash collected during the…
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