Riverday – May 16, 2015
25th Annual RiverDay May 16, 2015 Celebrating the Cuyahoga River The event listing for RiverDay is now hosted at this site: www.crookedriverday.org
Ohio NowCast
Ohio NowCast This is a test of the nowcast for the Cuyahoga River. The nowcast issues advisories and predicts the concentrations of E. coli once a day at the posted time only. The predicted concentrations are for a specific site … Continued
Akron Sewer Consent Decree
On January 17, 2014, Judge John Adams approved the Consent Decree between the City of Akron and the US EPA, allowing the city to move forward with its $1.4-billion project to eliminate discharges of raw sewage into the river during … Continued
Sheraton and LeFever Dams
Dam Removal Update The removal of the Sheraton and LeFever Dams is complete, begun on July 30, 2013 and ending roughly August 20, 2013. This section of river is no longer closed to the general public. For the first time … Continued
Letter to the Editor – Akron Consent Decree
We totally agree with the Jan. 15 editorial, “The big dig.” Friends of the Crooked River has advocated for correcting Akron’s combined sewer overflows for two decades. In the early days, when progress seemed nonexistent, our advocacy was quite adversarial. … Continued
Cuyahoga from Burning River to Recreational Resource
The Cuyahoga from Burning River to Recreational Resource is a program which was jointly presented by Appalachian Outfitters and Friends of the Crooked River on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at 6:30 PM at the Appalachian Outfitter store. FOCR’s Elaine Marsh … Continued