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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…
A bird’s eye view of the Cordova Ave property that River Guardians Ohio has been asked to assist in mitigating the trash, cleaning up the area and restoring this treasure in the middle of urban Akron.
It is a VERY ambitious project but with the help of Akron City Council, the City Service Department, Black Hawk Foundation, Let’s Grow Akron, Summit Soil and Water Conservation District and the surrounding property owners, we can show what passionate people can accomplish.
407 pounds in 15 bags, 3 tires, 1 barrel and 5 needles.
Took Brad, Johnny and myself about 2 hours to clean out the trash collected in these Mud Run booms, but, it will now not end up spread out over hundred of miles of the Tuscarawas watershed. In the video I said I wouldn’t talk through it all, I did. Also said I would now be…
Our Girl River, helping me as always, preparing for a meeting for Riveruardians Ohio.
Her questioning look is to an email response that states, “it’s not as bad now as when it was discovered and we can’t figure out what is causing this, so we think the issue should be considered closed.” River and I had a real conversation and we will not consider it “closed”.
Met up with Esperenza and Zach on Summit Lake Saturday.
They had participated in the Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition sponsored cleanup the week before and loved the experience. Now they want to be able to do more but were worried about the logistics of getting trash picked up if they were on their own. They are not on their own now as through RiverGuardians…
I took the bucket strainer out today at Summit lake and it did ok.
Certainly tedious work and my back hurts! I feel this contraption would work a little better for the really muddy areas where the shore is a slow grade to the water. In those areas the mud is a few inches deep and wet and full of plastics. Then I could just shovel the mud into…
