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The Ottawa River Kleanup Association, Inc. (ORKA) was
established in January of 1999. ORKA was founded by members of the
Ottawa River Yacht Club, Outings Unlimited, Inc., Point Place Boat Club,
River View Yacht Club and the Western Lake Erie Sailing Club.
ORKA is a community development corporation. Plans are in
place to apply for federal, state and local grants in an effort to have the
adequate resources available to reach our goal. We also host numerous fund
raising events each year in an effort to add to our resources. Any and all
profits are contained within our 501 3C fund (established January 1, 2002).
ORKA members and friends also participate in various clean up
activities each year. We volunteer our services to the Clean The Streams
Event in September, in which we rid the
Lake Erie Islands at
the mouth of the Ottawa River of unwanted and unnecessary debris. We also
host an annual clean up of the Hoffman Road Nature Trail in May. ORKA is
very proud that we are the "adoptive parents" of this site.
ORKA meets on the fourth Monday of
certain months, at 7:00 p.m., and we welcome
anyone interested to attend our general membership meetings as well as any
of our fund raisers and clean up activities.
Clean up projects
provide us with a means of informing the public as to the condition of the
Ottawa River, as well as letting local and federal governments know that we
are serious about restoring the river to a more pristine condition, which
includes dredging.
Since the clean up of
the Ottawa River is important to not only our generation but to future
generations, we hope you will find this a worthy cause and be willing to
lend your support to our projects.
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The Ottawa River, also known as Ottawa Creek, is a short river,
approximately 15 mi (24 km) long (or about 45 mi (72.5 km if the longest
tributary is included), in northwest Ohio
and southeast Michigan in the United
States. It drains an area on the Ohio-Michigan
border along the eastern and northern fringes of the city of Toledo,
goes through Ottawa Hills, and empties directly
into Lake Erie. It is one of two rivers
in northwestern Ohio that share the same name, along with Ottawa
River that is a tributary of the Auglaize River.
The upper 4 mi (6 km) of the river in Michigan north of Sylvania,
Ohio is sometimes called North Tenmile Creek,
while another branch rising in Fulton County, Ohio,
is called Tenmile Creek.
It
rises in extreme Southeastern Michigan,
southwest of Ottawa Lake, approximately 3 mi (5
km) north of the Ohio-Michigan state line. It flows south across the
state line to Sylvania, approximately 5 mi (8 km) northwest of Toledo, then
flows southeast into western Toledo, where it turns abruptly northeast.
For its lower 5 mi (8 km) it flows along the north side of Toledo roughly
parallel to the Maumee River separated from it
by approximately 2 mi (3 km). It crosses the Michigan state line for
its lower 1 mi (1.6 km), entering Little
Maumee Bay on Lake Erie. |
