This just hurts my heart
This just hurts my heart and why I am so motivated to clean up Summit Lake and to stop the trash from getting in here.
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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…
First rain in weeks yesterday and the results on two of the booms on the east side of Summit Lake…
36 pounds of bottles, cans, bags, styrofoam to name a few, all from storm sewers.
2024 Year in review for River Guardians Ohio
From designing our trash boom, getting it approved by ODNR at the beginning of the year, to coordinating with Summit Metro Parks, City of Akron, City of Norton; working with property owners for access, South Street Ministries and Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition, who help pull out some of the trash collected in the booms. Our…
Sunday rains lead to some boom clean outs
About 100 pounds, at Summit Lake, Canal, Mud Run, Wolf Creek and wrapped up today with a new boom at Summit Lake! Bring on the Rain!
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…
A side benefit of having trash booms in the waterways and checking them regularly is you occasionally trap more than just trash.
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.
