Eric Fitch and I dropped in a boom on the Little Cuyahoga yesterday for an Akron Zoo event Saturday. Water was a little high but the two old men managed to get it in. On our way back to the cars, we came upon these two snapping turtles doing a “thing”.
When you become intimate with the waterways you experience so much more!
We have an event with the Akron Zoo down on the Little Cuyahoga River by the Mustill Store on May 30th. Our part will be demonstrating and building with our future generation, a trash boom and demonstrating the operation and maybe a little scavenger hunt of sorts. Earlier in the week we surveyed a location…
In the video you see me using the most common tools for cleaning out booms. It took about 35 min in real time in part because of the snow and ice. I also made a trip to the Canal Boom just south of Summit Lake. That video will come tomorrow. You can see the oil…
36 pounds of bottles, cans, bags, styrofoam to name a few, all from storm sewers.
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…
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