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Our Girl River, helping me as always, preparing for a meeting for Riveruardians Ohio.
Her questioning look is to an email response that states, “it’s not as bad now as when it was discovered and we can’t figure out what is causing this, so we think the issue should be considered closed.” River and I had a real conversation and we will not consider it “closed”.

Was away for a week and the booms on Summit Lake worked the entire time I was gone, holding all the trash that was trying to get into the lake.
Today’s video is cruising around the lake picking up that trash! The system works! Thanks again to Summit Metro Parks for picking up the trash on the east side and Ohio Erie Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition for grabbing the trash on the west side! Oh, and Thank You to whomever cleaned up some of…

Contamination is still present.
Booms, ours and theirs, are containing the vast majority. Steady increase in volume. Will get back out Monday to put eyes on it and follow up with OEPA for next steps.

The Cordova project is more than just stopping and collecting trash before it pollutes a pond that is fed by this creek.
The area in this video is the headwaters of a couple storm sewer outfalls. Every time it rains, trash pours in and for the past few months, we have been catching and removing it right here. “The Trash Stops Here!” In addition, we have started the long hard process of removing the phragmites where we…

Three Little Booms!
Spent some time collecting at Mud Run (3 bags 39 pounds), Wolf Creek (1 bag 8 pounds) and new boom off of Cordova (5 bags 59 pounds).
