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).
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Beautiful Sunday morning walk along the towpath and around Summit Lake enjoying this nice weather checking booms.
We are starting to see some visible fruits of our labors with the booms.
Wolf Creek in Norton today.
Bag of trash and passed the grasses on down stream. Ready for the rain! Using that rake you gifted Julie Ann Sweet-Buntin!
I love when kids ask me what we are doing?
Thank You, Kayandisu for stopping with your children and sharing some time. River Guardians Ohio is about getting our future generations involved in keeping our waterways clean.
Reminder why we are working so hard to bring a real fix to the trash issue on Summit Lake.
River Guardians Ohio’s efforts along with so many others is slowly taking things from trash to treasure. Can you even see the babies in the left photo from yesterday? Same ducks, same day, same place!
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.
A lot of the trash that ends up in our waterways doesn’t start there.
It starts along roadsides, curbs, and overgrown edges where it builds up over time. After vegetation was cleared in this area, a huge amount of hidden litter was exposed. In roughly 1,000 square feet, we pulled 105 pounds of trash in just one cleanup. And this stretch is uphill from the Little Cuyahoga, meaning a…
