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!
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…
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…
We have been working this area consistently since last spring and the fruits of our labor are showing more and more. Our manual removal of the phragmites, though very labor intensive, is allowing the native species to regain a foothold. We are stopping the trash from overwhelming the watershed with our booms and we are…
Initially we took on this location to do trash mitigation per the request of a local property owner…this is developing into a full blown restoration project of this tiny waterway from the creek itself to the riparian area and how this impacts all of the surrounding community. This is a major project for our small…
Kat Donaldson, Johnny Ringo and I put half in as the second boom on the Cordova Project and the other half is now home under the dock on the North Shore area of Summit Lake. We also collected about 130 pounds of trash from the two locations. Best part of it all, spending time together…
Johnny played with the new power tools while Kat and I pulled a little over 200 pounds of plastic and trash that has been collecting here since 1962. This is the second cut on the phragmites since we started with several more over the next couple years. If you look close, some of the native…
Kat’s background in marine science is a big add to our River Guardians Ohio team. More than just trash, we want to improve the water quality and habitat in the locations we are monitoring. In the video you will see us using a chainsaw to clear some storm damage before we could get the trash…
He is the Ohio Champion! Working hard down at Cordova to open up the waterway for both the animals and our access to be able to capture the trash.
The “sludge” at the end is pretty common in our booms and we are working on a better way to remove it from our ecosystem. Making great progress at this location!