Dave and I had to make some boom repairs at Mud Run this morning and pulled 30 pounds of trash while we were there. Check out that hat Dave is sporting!
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Canal boom and Mud Run got a little love today.
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…
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I love when kids ask me what we are doing?
Thank You, Kayandisu for stopping with your children and sharing some time. River Guardians Ohio is about getting our future generations involved in keeping our waterways clean.
