Rick Livingston, associate director of Ohio State’s Humanities Institute, says the rescue of mussels stranded by the 5th Avenue dam removal has actually already started:
“I spent the day pulling mussels from just below the site — we moved close to 400 downstream, to just below Harrison Park. For better or worse, that wedge of river between the dam and the bend has been unbelievably productive; hopefully they’ll like the site downriver as much.
“Also, the folks at Stantec (the company in charge of the dam removal) were really grateful for all the enthusiastic volunteers; unfortunately, they’re only equipped to handle two volunteers per Stantec worker, so there’s a bit of a bottleneck.”