Time for the every two month inspection of the Three Mile Creek watershed that I've been doing since 2011. Despite multiple complaints to multiple environmental agencies, the Governor, the President, all the local environmental groups, and City officials, the garbage in the waterways and in the wetlands continues to be ignored. What is in Mobile Bay? Your garbage because Clean Water in Mobile is at the absolute bottom of the City's priorities. The Federal Government's Clean Water Act continues to be ignored. ADEM continues to slap the City of Mobile's hand with an occasional little fine instead of issuing a daily fine until the trash is cleaned up. The future of Mobile for the next generation under the leadership of Sam Jones is doomed because Sam and the City Council cares so little about Three Mile Creek garbage that they won't put a single person out removing it.
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Above photo: All of these photos were taken today Monday, June 10, 2013. Note, that before this morning's rain started, the litter trap was already full of trash and debris. The tide was coming in which is why the boom is bowed upward. Above photo: A brief heavy downpour caused trash coming from the nearby drainpipe to go right by the litter trap like it always does. All the turbidity was coming from that drainpipe, along with a plume of oil which can be seen after every rain. Above photo: A big plume of oil can be seen flowing down Eslava Creek at this location after every rain. BP would be fined for allowing this. The City of Mobile and their engineering firm that is in charge of the City's stormwater runoff ignores the oil pollution into Dog River. Above photo: Just downstream of the City's litter trap garbage comes out of a double-barreled drainage culvert and flows down Eslava Creek into Dog River. The City of Mobile continues to ignore this floating garbage coming from their drainage ditch. Above photo: The City of Mobile's cheap DESMI litter trap continues to fail after almost every rain. You can see the litter boom going underwater on the top side and trash flowing over the boom on the bottom side. Authorities keep claiming the litter trap is working even though most of the trash flows right over the boom and continues on downstream. This wasn't even a heavy rain. Just wait to see how deep the trap goes underwater when the waters rise 4 feet. About photo: Two pieces of Styrofoam just floated over the litter trap boom. Above photo: Because the City of Mobile continues to ignore their trash pollution in Eslava Creek, and they won't replace the cheap DESMI litter trap which does not work, and the city has no one removing the trash that comes from all the other ditches, City of Mobile Dog River Park shoreline is lined with trash. Plus the City of Mobile ignores that trash too. Someone should be fired! Above photo: ADEM as usual has their head up their ass. The construction at Brookley continues to dump a heavy sediment plume into Rabby Creek which dumps into Dog River despite multiple complaints. Adem's inspector can't find the source of the sediment. Someone needs to be fired! To keep a waterway clean takes effort. Unfortunately despite lawsuits and fines the City of Mobile still has no one removing the trash from any of the Dog River tributaries like Bolton Branch. The EPA should revoke a ADEM's authority because ignoring the pollution in Mobile's waterways should not be tolerated. |
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