Here are some photos taken yesterday while kayaking along the shoreline of Bayou La Batre. The Bayou La Batre community advertises itself as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama."
Look at just how little Bayou La Trash's waterfront businesses care about their valuable waterway. After seeing all this pollution up close I can only imagine how nasty it must be inside the stinky seafood processing buildings along that polluted waterway.
I wouldn't eat Gulf Seafood or anything processed in Bayou La Trash if you paid me to.
The US EPA really needs to shut down the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) and take over Alabama's waterway pollution problems. ADEM has proven to me it is dead in the water when it comes to responding to complaints about trash pollution in public Alabama waterways. Look no further than Bayou La Batre for evidence of gross neglect of waterway pollution. And this is after years of complaints about this specific pollution to ADEM.
ADEM's director Mr. Lance LeFleur and ADEM's Water Division Chief Ms. Glenda Dean should both face some jail time for allowing so much industrial trash to rot in the shoreline waters of Bayou La Batre year after year after years of complaints.