Brookley Road Construction - a City of Mobile project. MCR-2012-003. Guess the City of Mobile cannot oversee their own construction projects when it comes to Erosion and Sediment Control. A site visit after the rain still showed unprotected ditches and inlets with no BMPs in sight. Guess that is why the waters got muddy around Brookley. The first four photos were taken less than 1/2 mile from ADEM's office. To the contractor's credit, he did get a good bit of roadway shoulder stabilized with erosion control material and he did add additional BMPs around some outfalls and in ditches. Why do Muddy Water Watch volunteers have to do the monitoring and file reports to contractors saying their construction sites lack BMPs? That should be part of the City of Mobile's responsibility to protect area waterways. No wonder why ADEM just sued the City of Mobile partly for storm water issues. The City requires erosion and sediment control plans on big construction projects. If contractors won't install the proper BMPs, don't let them do work for the City. Look at the terrible paving job this contractor did - leaving low spots where puddles take up an entire lane.
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Light rain sent almost no trash downstream. The litter basket caught about a dozen pieces of trash.
I saw no garbage get by the litter trap today. What little garbage there was came from downstream outfalls. Sadly, the City of Mobile is doing nothing to remove trash downstream of the litter trap. Nice shoreline scenery downstream of the Litter Trap eh? Click on any photo below for larger views with commentary in the Photo Gallery.
The Alabama State Port Authority has spent $15 MILLION dollars
to enhance Security over the past decade but spend nothing and do nothing to keep their Three Mile Creek property clean. The Photo shown below is Alabama State Port Authority shoreline on Three Mile Creek. What is the City of Mobile doing about Three Mile Creek pollution? No comment from the assholes at the City of Mobile. Click on the below photo to see what One Mile Creek has looked like over the past year. Mobile Bay National Estuary Program's (MBNEP) Plan to deal with pollution: CCMP 2013-2018
Quoting the CCMP: "...the issue of trash in and around our waterways again appears as a top concern." Quoting the CCMP: "...in the coming years it will be imperative to address the issues of trash in our waterways." If the issue of trash is a top concern now why wait for the coming years to deal with it? People MBNEP has working on the "Plan": 93 People MBNEP has removing garbage from One Mile Creek: 0 People the City of Mobile has removing trash from One Mile Creek: 0 People the State of Alabama has removing trash from One Mile Creek: 0 Number of prisoners that have removed trash from One Mile Creek: 0 People the Federal Government has removing trash from One Mile Creek. 0 People of all environmental groups combined have removing trash from One Mile Creek: 0 ADEM says MBNEP has partnered with a local company to remove trash from local waterways. There are still ZERO people working to remove the trash from the One Mile Creek area. What is the City of Mobile doing? No comments from the assholes at the City of Mobile. Click on the below photo to see what One Mile Creek has looked like over the past year. Creeks less than 2 miles from Mobile Baykeeper's downtown office are polluted and have been for a while.
What is Mobile Baykeeper doing? They have been busy with Bay Bash parties, Beers and Cheers parties, Hopsfest parties, Open House parties, Imax on Tap parties, and Sweetwater Brewing Company parties. I invited Mobile Baykeeper to join me on a paddle in Maple Street Canal but they were too busy. What is the City of Mobile doing? Anyone Home? No comments from the assholes at the City of Mobile. The left and right sides of the waterway seen here are owned by the pigs over at the City of Mobile. No response from the City in over a year encourages me to use better words to describe them. Click on the below photo to see what Maple Street Canal has looked like over the past year. Click on any photo below for larger views with commentary. There are 3 separate Photo Galleries. Scenes from the Downtown Mobile area. Scenes from the banks of Three Mile Creek. Got Trash? Mobile's waterways do. Scenes of damage left by December's tornado.
Note: These photos shot yesterday are taken DOWNSTREAM of Mobile's new litter trap. A month has passed since documenting garbage flowing down Eslava Creek past the litter trap. Why hasn't the City public works removed any of this trash in the past month? Future generations are screwed because this generation has no one removing the garbage from waterways. Click on any photo below to bring up a larger photo gallery with comments.
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