As usual, the City of Mobile has yet to make any changes to their cheap DESMI litter trap in Eslava Creek. Trash was seen going over the loose booms in the two wee morning hour heavier rains - steady but not heavy enough to send a wave of storm water litter downstream. Sure hope we don't get a really heavy rain causing Eslava Creek to rise quickly. If we do, what little trash seen here will be sent downstream when the trap goes under water.
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Same Old Story (SOS). Ditches full of litter. Trash spilling over the litter trap boom. No litter traps in other garbage spewing streams. No city service to remove public trash from where it accumulates in Mobile's waterways. The polluted drainage ditches, a malfunctioning litter trap, no trash removal from waterways end up causing residents to spend time raking trash out of the water in front of their homes after every heavy rain. This is paradise on Dog River. Trash is what you get for your expensive waterfront real estate. I remember back in July 2011, two years ago, a heavy rain deposited a bunch of storm water litter into Dog River not long after I moved to the area. It is what started my focus on the problem of waterway litter and the fact that the City has no one out removing it. Click here to see more on that event. Here it is almost 2 years later and not a thing has changed. I went out today to take some photos, before the forecast heavy rains fall. Since the City continues to ignore the waterway garbage in Dog River, the violations of the Clean Water Act continue. The Dog River Clearwater Revival group needs to proceed with their $50 Million Dollar lawsuit against the City of Mobile in my opinion. Litter Traps will not remove this garbage because all this garbage is downstream of the litter trap. If there are any environmental lawyers out there listening, I'll be happy to initiate a Clean Water Act violation lawsuit against the City of Mobile, the County of Mobile, the State of Alabama, ADEM, and the EPA. Ignoring this waterway pollution is not acceptable. Above and Below Photos: A couple of photos (merged) showing the shoreline of Dog River today. Ugly eh? All these images were taken along a three mile stretch between Dog River Park and the Holcombe Avenue Litter Trap. Because the City of Mobile refuses to commit any public works employees to removing trash from these public waterways, this public garbage only gets denser. I have a problem with that because leaving trash rot in our valuable waterways is irresponsible and against the law in my opinion. It is poisoning our waters and to poison public waterways is a treasonous act.
Below Photos: Click on any thumbnail to bring up a larger view photo gallery with commentary. 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! Above Photo: The City of Mobile taxpayers give Mobile Group half a million dollars a year to deal with storm water pollution and this is what you get for your money. Plumes of oil flowing down Eslava Creek into residential Dog River watershed. Happens every time rain flows along Holcombe Avenue. This was seen after a brief rain this afternoon. BP got the hell sued out of them for polluting the Gulf of Mexico with oil. Mobile pollutes a residential watershed with oil and no one cares.
Below Photo: The heavier rain fell late this evening (1 inch of rain fell in an hour) and the majority of Eslava Creek litter flowed right over the City of Mobile's experimental litter trap. I hope DESMI who made the litter trap is paying the City of Mobile a lot of money for research and development of DESMI's litter trap which has never worked when subjected to an inch of rainfall. What's going to happen when Mobile gets 3 inches of rain in an hour? Above Photo: Mobile's reinstalled DESMI Litter Trap Basket did not sink - it failed to rise with rising water level in yesterday's rain. The end result was all the ditch litter was flushed right past the Litter Basket and it continued floating on downstream where the floatable garbage stopped moving in the tidal zone near Dog River Park. The City of Mobile Bozos have no Plan B to remove the trash. If the City of Mobile doesn't have a Plan B to deal with the visible pollution, just imagine how dysfunctional the City of Mobile is at monitoring for harmful Invisible Chemicals flowing into local creeks after every rain. Nothing like paddling in a creek filled with raw sewage after every rain and there was some strong sewage smell in Eslava Creek today. The Health Department's reported sewage spill was probably underestimated based on what I smelled today. Above Photo: Shoreline just east of Dog River Park in Dog River lined with visible garbage.
Below Photo: The rainbow colors in the roadside puddle on Holcombe Avenue next to Eslava Creek is typical of what comes off many pavements in Mobile when it rains. The City of Mobile and Alabama are quick to blame BP for polluting the Gulf of Mexico with petroleum but neither Alabama nor the City of Mobile require storm water inlets to capture first flush contaminants like this before the contaminants get flushed into the waterways. While ADEM and the City of Mobile turn a blind eye as to what chemicals they pollute local waterways with, BP is cleaning up their petroleum and paying dearly for it. The City of Mobile should be held accountable to clean up their pollution and pay dearly for it too! Actually people make up the City population. If the City residents chose to ignore their pollution they deserve the consequences. Mobile's Plan B is for Barfing. Enjoy your cancer treatment. Carnival's Cruise Ship "Triumph" aka the Turd Ship was back in the news today. Gusty winds broke the anchor lines and blew the ship across Mobile River where it collided with another ship. Some of the damage on the Turd Ship is circled in Red. Channel 5 and Channel 15 news reporters are seen getting ready for live news reports.
Also seen today are a few images below. Click on the thumbnails to see a larger image. Dog River Clearwater Revival and the City of Mobile
are working together to solve the storm water litter problem in Dog River. Here is how well their plan is working. Mobile isn't in the state of Alabama, it is in the state of Denial. Click on an image below to bring up larger views in the photo gallery. The Eslava Creek Litter Trap captures a half dozen pieces of trash from this brief rain storm.
ALL the trash from two nearby ditches flows downstream toward Dog River unimpeded. The City of Mobile installed the Litter Trap ABOVE most of the trash generating ditches, so, Dog River residents should not expect to see much relief from storm water litter. The old shoreline garbage hasn't been removed yet. New garbage continues to flow downstream. The City of Mobile has no one removing the trash from the waterways. The $50,000,000 lawsuit over Clean Water Act violations hasn't changed a thing. Here are some photos taken around Municipal Park today. Does it seems like there is a trash problem in every one of Mobile's waterways? Scroll Down For More More Ugly Photos related to the Dog River Watershed.
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