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…
Matt volunteered his time and equipment, without which we would not have even attempted this. Dan volunteered his skills with the chainsaw that again, without we would not have taken this on. Watching these two work together for the first time, you would have thought they had done this for years as a team. RGO’s…
Took us a little while to pull the booms out of the debris from the storms a few weeks back. Turns out with a little fixin’, we were able to get them to a new location upstream and will put them back in the rotation. Part of the delay was because of the tree at…
We were planning to move these booms upstream some to rest the substrate and bank. Storms have forced our hand with this. These booms have been destroyed and will need to be replaced. 88 pounds on this day.
189 pounds isn’t too bad of a haul. The videos here are mostly these two booms as they are convenient for filming and they do show the jest of what goes on when cleaning booms. We have a few more booms that will be going in over the next little while as we work through…
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…