Below Photos: More shots of plastic flower pot containers and other various pollution seen today near the Alligator Bayou sub-watershed. Click on any of the thumbnails below to bring up a photo gallery viewer.
Above Photo: Wetland Property near Flowerwood Nursery. Because of scenes like this, miles of Alligator Bayou waterways have plastic plant containers in them and the trail of this plastic pollution goes all the way into Mobile Bay. This is an example of plastic pollution with a traceable source. Unfortunately, there is no watershed management or no environmental monitoring of waterways in Mobile and no one to hold the Flowerwood Nursery accountable for their pollution of the environment. Below Photos: More shots of plastic flower pot containers and other various pollution seen today near the Alligator Bayou sub-watershed. Click on any of the thumbnails below to bring up a photo gallery viewer.
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Above Photo: For those who think Dog River's storm water litter problem is confined to Eslava Creek and Montlimar Creek, think again. Here is a photo taken today in Rabbit Creek. Ugly eh? When the remaining contents of that spray can explode, Rabbit Creek might be a little more poisonous too.
It has proven impossible to keep the thousands of roadside ditches in Mobile County litter free - even with many litter removal crews and volunteer clean up events. Sadly, keeping Mobile's waterways litter free could be done with one or two workers. Waterways are only trashed by infrequent heavy rain events, not by daily public littering and there aren't that many trash impaired waterways. How many people does the City of Mobile have removing trash from Mobile's waterways? Not a single person. The Environmental Agencies apparently don't care whether Mobile's waterway garbage is removed or not, either. I shake my head in disbelief. Local news is blanketed with stories of people in Mobile who are angry about an oil pipeline not even built and certainly not leaking, but there are no news stories about existing waterway pollution like pictured above. Mobilians should be outraged that there is no one in charge of water quality in Mobile County. Above Photo: Rattlesnake Bayou is pretty clean except near the State Highway - Rangeline Road. If there is an interstate or a state highway crossing a waterway, it is one of the leading contributors to litter pollution. Such bridges should be fenced off to prevent trash from being tossed or blown over the bridge.
Below Photo: Is the State to blame for this trash? No. This is reality living among the Bay of Pigs with the lead Pig caring so little for Mobile's waterways that Jonesy won't put any public works people out removing this trash. Above Photo: Halls Mill Creek is becoming another one of Mobile's trash impaired tributaries in Dog River watershed. How many people does Mobile Public Works (City and County) have working to remove the public's trash from this public waterway? None. A waterway protection policy like that causes storm water propelled trash to get denser. I again ask, "Where are the Environmental Protection agencies?"
Below Photos: Click on any image to view larger images with commentary. Above Photo: I went bird watching in Dog River today.
Question: What is wrong with this picture? Answer: It was taken in a Mobile waterway. Why are the oceans filling up with plastic? Because cities like Mobile use their precious waterways as garbage dumps while having absolutely no remorse at all for polluting their waterways and ignoring it. Where is ADEM? Where is the EPA? In my camera's eye, there is no federal "Clean Water Act" enforced in Mobile or Alabama. If there was, someone would be removing the floating waterway pollution regularly. If plastic trash is not removed and recycled or properly disposed of, it does not go away - it only moves around until it becomes microscopic in size. These are all photos taken today while kayaking. Earth is the Spaceship humans live on. What happens on Earth stays on Earth. Humans need to accept responsibility at the local level and control the amount of plastic that is propelled into our spaceship's waterways . . . . . . at least until scientists understand the consequences of what putting a dense layer of plastic across all the oceans will have on our spaceship. Could global amounts of plastic be causing global warming from absorbing the Sun's energy across the vast oceans? Could global amounts of plastic be causing global amounts of obesity through endocrine gland altering BPA or other unknown plastic chemicals being allowed to rot in our spaceships water supply? Below Photos: Click on any thumbnail to bring up the Photo Gallery which has larger images. Above Photo: If the City thinks storm water trash in confined to Moore Creek and Eslava Creek, they are mistaken. Here is Robinson Bayou - home to the public's rotting litter. There are no volunteers, no businesses, and no public agencies removing public trash from public waterways in Mobile. When it comes to waterway trash removal, Keep Mobile Beautiful doesn't exist. That is about as stupid as a Community can get. Pollute your waterways and then ignore the pollution? Enjoy your Alabama Seafood and Cancer.
Below Photos: Click on any thumbnail below to bring up a larger view photo gallery with photo commentary. Above Photo: City of Mobile Waterfront Property on Moore Creek. Parcel ID# R023306131000001. Below Photos: Click on a thumbnail to bring up a larger view photo gallery with commentary. Below Photo: Why is it every time I see the name "Sam Jones" it reminds me of trash?
Above Photo: A photo taken today - the sign says, "Welcome to Mobile." What is that on the ground welcoming visitors to Mobile? Litter. Welcome to Mobile also known as the Bay of Pigs led by none other than Sam Jones whose top priorities include strict litter enforcement. That's a joke.
Terry Wendell was quoted in a story by FOX10TV's Chasity Byrd saying, "... you can travel all over Idaho, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and probably couldn't fill up a garbage bag. You can fill up a pickup truck within a few blocks here." Having recently traveled out west, I'd have to agree. The City of Mobile has the Mardi Gras mentality. Throw your crap on the ground and let someone else pick it up. Give the Prisoners something to do. We're miserable citizens in Mobile and we don't care. Way to go on one of your top priorities Mayor. Jonesy is addressing Mobile's litter problem about as well as he is addressing his obesity. What fat? What litter? Welcome to Mobile. Oink Oink! Above Photo: Shoreline of Dog River Park. It is hilarious to see the City's Litter Trap fail during every heavy rain allowing all the Eslava Creek storm water trash to flow downstream into upper Dog River where some of it ends up on the shoreline of the City's Dog River Park. The City won't filter out the litter and the City won't remove the litter from the Park. Two negatives are what the City is all about. Sam Jones and John Bell. They have to go if Mobile ever wants to change its slum dog image.
Maybe the State of Alabama should use some of that BP oil spill money to remove the garbage from Dog River Park's shoreline. Naaa, rather than clean up the water along Coastal Alabama, why not waste four hundred thousand dollars of BP money to rebuild a park in Fairhope that is only 18 years old. Let the Dog River residents swim in the trash. See the story below. http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Money-from-BP-Settlements-to-Update-Community-Park/aU4DSqVA8ky4IhKqNwm26A.cspx Below Photos: The first two photos below are the same house. The trashy left photo was taken 6 days ago and the trash free right photo was taken today. Where did all the trash go? I'm guessing the trash was removed by the property owners in the area because the undeveloped properties are still full of trash. As usual, the City of Mobile's Dog River Park is still lined with trash. Above Photo: Taken along Moore Creek just downstream of the Halls Mill Road Bridge.
Public litter ends up accumulating in Public waterways because of the failure of law enforcement to catch the criminals (it shouldn't be their job anyways), failure of the punishment of getting caught littering to deter the criminal act of littering (caning sounds acceptable), and failure of the City of Mobile to remove the trash from the dry roadside ditches and from their trash impaired waterways after heavy rains. Casi Callaway with Mobile Baykeeper talked about waterway litter in a recent news story on WKRG called, Litter Continues to Plague Mobile Waterways. Casi told Tiffany with WKRG that "Litter is a three fold problem - starting with individual responsibility, the city making efforts to clean it up and law enforcement agencies enforcing the law." Casi believes, "the city needs to have more permanent cleanup crews in place to address the problem." She got that right! Mobile's Bay Of Pigs are acting irresponsible. Law enforcement is lacking and the City makes no effort to remove the trash. This three fold failure is what supplies me with a never ending source of ugly photos. Today the Mall area was spared the heavy rains but the middle portion of Dog River watershed got about 2.5 inches of rain in an hour and that affected Moore Creek. Below Photos: Click on any thumbnail for a larger view photo gallery with commentary on each photo. |
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