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…
Mud Run netted 147 pounds today. Secondary boom broke away as it is designed, bad news we lost the trash, good news, a natural boom downstream caught most and we will get down there and clean it up. Will ask for some help on that one when the time comes. Sediment is another source of…
135 pounds today! I am in the water at this boom but one does not have to get in the water when cleaning a boom, the trash is directed to you on the shore. I get in sometimes to get things out of the muck and here because I want to go up and downstream…
Getting this cleaned out today to make room for what the storms today might bring. This is one of our most productive booms stopping tons of trash from making it to the Tuscarawas. We look forward to deploying several more this year. If you are interested in what we are doing and want to have…
Cold but not frozen. Mud Run netted us 83 pounds of trash with more on the way as the snow melts and that trash makes its way to the storm sewers and ultimately our booms. Just a note: if we pick it up along our streets and parking lots, it doesn’t make it to the…
Little over 100 pounds today. The video and my narration is about an hour and a half of time condensed down to 3 min. Even in my younger days I could not move like this.
Hidden under the snow is a fair amount of trash in the booms. Will likely be hitting that either Monday or Tuesday morning. The rainbow and discoloration is petroleum pollution most likely from our roads and parking lots all of which dump onto storm sewers and all of which dump into our waterways. There are…
I have not put out many posts recently as there have been many administrative things to fill my plate. Please know though, we are always out there on the waterways, cleaning, monitoring, recording, reporting, sharing, collaborating and being the best stewards we can be. A very special THANK YOU to all those that work beside…
Took Brad, Johnny and myself about 2 hours to clean out the trash collected in these Mud Run booms, but, it will now not end up spread out over hundred of miles of the Tuscarawas watershed. In the video I said I wouldn’t talk through it all, I did. Also said I would now be…
The rains Monday pushed trash through the storm sewers and right to the RiverkeepersOhio booms where it waits for us to collect. 3 bags today and about 48 pounds from the canal and Nature Center booms with a bunch more to pull from Mud Run when the water comes down a little. Johnny, in this…