Construction site north of Summit Lake.
Looks like the word made it to the folks working here. Some barriers have been put in place. Even with a soft voice, we can have impact.
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The video is from Sunday as we surveyed the location for a cleanup coming Thursday 13th June about 9 am.
Thank You Summit Metro Parks for the coordination here just north of the Wilbeth trailhead. Dave and I will be out cleaning if you care to cruise by. Going to trying something new in our bag of tricks for this one.
Supervisor today did approve of our work, Fran Kitchen!
This area on Summit Lake has been “occupied” for some time now and there is a lot of trash to be removed. One step at a time. We opened the area up so there aren’t easy places to hide and this gives us access to all the trash in the water that we have not…
Exactly 1 year ago today
Nobel Oil dumped 1000 gallons of used motor oil into the Tuscrawaras River when transferring from their tanker truck into a railcar at the P-C Sales transfer station in Barberton and the resulting #disasteronthetuscarawas polluted the environment for miles, killing countless wildlife and affecting many more. We monitored the cleanup for the next 11 weeks…
Dave and I had planned on cleaning the boom at Mud Run this morning…
Dave and I had planned on cleaning the boom at Mud Run this morning and the rain started so I took advantage of that and came down to check the booms on Summit Lake and this is the result of that.
On 6 Sept, the Dover Chemical company in Dover was responsible for a toxic spill of a phenol based product into Sugar Creek (tributary to the Tuscarawas) resulting the immediate killing of fish.
There was no report to the public from them, local politicos, OEPA, ODNR or anyone for that mater. That is until George Wright ventured down to the creek on Sept 10th (4 days after the event) for some fishing only to find all the fish dead. He contacted the local fire department along with OEPA…
Is there Gold in the Canal?
You would be surprised at what we catch in our booms. Today we pulled 130-150 pounds of trash that would have flowed into Summit Lake. Lots of folks using the towpath and we must say, “Thank You for all the kinds words of encouragement!” It really does help. Again, thank you Summit Metro Parks for…
