The scouts in this area came together to build the trash booms we will be using for mitigation as we remediate this waterway with the community group lead by Kary Burns-Bailey and Harley Bailey. Together our purpose is to not only clean the watershed flowing through Hyre Park of trash, but also deploy measures to…
This effort is the result of a very passionate family who lives along the banks. Kary Burns-Bailey and Harley Bailey. They reached out to us and after a few site visits and coordination with a few folks, we are ready to get started. We are very excited because this is how community working together can…
We managed to prevent a couple hundred pounds of trash from making its way into the Tuscarawas and Little Cuyahoga and spent time removing invasive phragmites from Cordova and training Kat on some power tools!
Welcome to the official River Guardians Ohio Facebook page! This also our official announcement that River Guardians Ohio (RGO) is officially an Ohio nonprofit corporation and IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity!!! Whoo Hoo!!!! While you can continue following Opa Runs we would love to have you follow us here too! Stay Tuned for more to come!…
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…
Nesmith and especially the Old Young’s area is making a comeback! Stop by and walk around to witness the transformation and grab a glass of ice cold lemonade to carry with you!
City of Akron employees spent some volunteer time with River Guardians Ohio pulling out 446 pounds of trash below the storm water outfall off of Cordova, much of which has been collecting there since 1962! The crew commented that every step they took had trash underneath and could only hear the crunching of plastic. The…
This is a quick review of what will be coming in the near future with this watershed. Kary Burns-Bailey and Harley Baily had contacted River Guardians Ohio through Summit Soil and Water Conservation District about this watershed that runs through their community. Short version, I have met with them on site a couple times and…
Wednesday morning I went down to the lake to clean some trash only to find the Akron City Parks Department Crew hard at work clearing the shoreline. I made sure to give our thanks to these professionals and joined in the fun pulling out trash they were exposing. By Friday afternoon, we suspect that most…
Link to the cleanup this Saturday is here. I misspoke on the video, Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners, not “conservancy”