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 out. 126 pounds wasn’t a bad haul! Thanks to the City of Akron for picking up our trash at these locations. 2 hours work in 2 min.
We do have some fun and really appreciate the waves and words of encouragement from folks passing by. Tomorrow at 8 am, we will be on Summit Lake around the Nature Center adding secondary booms there. (Too much trash coming through the storm sewers on heavy rain events). A big Thank You to Summit Metro…
Just a little dialogue for the first part of the video and then some details on what is happening at this and some other trash booms. 1 bag about 25 pounds.
46 pounds of trash from this spot today. This is a demonstration of how we do this after a rain event.
Made a round of the booms today. Pulled some trash from Mud Run and the canal boom just over 90 pounds. All the others are still locked in ice including Wolf Creek. That should break out tomorrow or Friday and we will try to get that one reset. Construction crews by the highway north of…
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Good haul today 8 bags and 130 pounds. We show you in this video how we weigh the bags. Not seen is a large couch cushion from the homeless encampment upstream on the other side of Waterloo that was too heavy with water to haul up the bank. Will let it dry out and get…