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Out cleaning booms on Summit Lake this morning!
This one is at the bottom of Trail Ave. Managed 4 bags at about 85 pounds. Thanks Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition and Summit Metro Parks for picking up our trash! Best part of the day, meeting and talking with people out enjoying the trail!
Hello Beautiful People!
Welcome to the official River Guardians Ohio Facebook page! This also our official announcement that River Guardians Ohio (RGO) is officially an Ohio nonprofit corporation and IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity!!! Whoo Hoo!!!! While you can continue following Opa Runs we would love to have you follow us here too! Stay Tuned for more to come!…
Repurposed the boom removed from Wolf Creek this morning.
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…
We are so proud of RGO Volunteer, Johnny Ringo, for being creative and coming up with this functional protype version 2.0.
A device he is working on to help to easily pick up microplastics in the river.
OEPA back out again today.
Update is: There was a very large trash dam upstream just south of Wooster Rd. There was a large volume of oil in that dam but where that originated from is not known. In collaboration, the City of Akron, City of Barberton and the OEPA put in a hard boom downstream, crews entered the water…
Thank You, Portage Lakes Advisory Council for having River Guardians Ohio share our passion last evening.
When we walked in, the first thing we saw was this super long grabber leaned up against the wall and we started drooling 🤣. Our plan was to check it out at the end of the evening but John Shepard, pictured with us, gifted this fun tool to help with our efforts. (I think they…
