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Booms cleared, reset and back at work.
102 pounds in 4 bags. Thanks again to the Service Team at the City of Akron for picking up what we collect! With the weather warming, we will get to service some of the other booms soon and start deploying new ones in the near future. Not just the same old places.

New boom deployed in Norton on Wolf Creek!
This is a 5 minute video showing the process of building and installing a boom. We anticipate a pretty good volume of trash collected here and very grateful to Julie Miller and her husband for giving access to this location and the City of Norton who will be picking up our collected trash!

I was honored to have been invited to speak about River Guardians Ohio to a group of people at an event held by Laura Sirot at the NTR Canoe Livery last Saturday.
One of the questions posed was, “what would I like to see from those in office to help our cause”? My simple answer was and is… “First, put some teeth behind violations to our waterways. For example: if you spill a 1000 gallons of oil in the Tuscarawas there should be fines over and above…

Welcome our newest #riverkeepersohio member Grant!
We hit the booms at Summit Lake and picked up a bag from the towpath. He earned his reward and shirt!!!

Canal boom before and after this morning
Another 51 pounds and a couple bags of trash. If you have any questions on the subject, feel free to message me here.

Our New Name!
You may have noticed that we have been laying low the past several weeks and now I am able to announce why. As of Dec 9, 2025 we officially changed our name to River Guardians Ohio. While we had done our due diligence when registering our old name, we didn’t dig deep enough. We received…