Hit it this morning for about 83 pounds of trash! Thanks again to Summit Metro Parks for picking up the bags. Best part of today was talking with a few folks who never knew how much trash finds its way here through the storm sewers. Most of our booms are somewhat hidden, this one is for all to see and the community response has been positive!
Very few do not leak something just sitting there. Where does it go?
OEPA was notified Wednesday and responded yesterday that they would look into it. Rains today and tomorrow…the system works slow. Wouldn’t it be better if folks just did the right thing instead of waiting for someone to tell them?
Johnny played with the new power tools while Kat and I pulled a little over 200 pounds of plastic and trash that has been collecting here since 1962. This is the second cut on the phragmites since we started with several more over the next couple years. If you look close, some of the native…
We hit the booms at Summit Lake and picked up a bag from the towpath. He earned his reward and shirt!!!
2 bags, 67 pounds not going into the lake. Sooo…there was so much microplastics here. I had to shake it out of the organics and scoop it with my hands. Sadly, two geese had perished some time earlier in the week and floated down to the boom. They were removed and reported to ODNR. Weather…
OEPA did visit this boom today. We have not heard what this is exactly. When we know, we will share. Did get about 30 pounds of trash out.