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I investigated into why there would still be trash in Three Mile Creek after the big Toulminville and Three Mile Creek cleanup. Vice President Councilman Fred Richardson Jr, boasted about all the people the City had working the event. When I ask Mr. Richardson how many City workers were out in a boat removing trash from Three Mile Creek, like City people do when they don't want to tell the truth, they decide to go silent. The councilman's silence pretty much told me the answer. The factual evidence came from a Fox 10 News report as shown above. Look at just how many people it takes to remove garbage from a City of Mobile Park shoreline because the City Parks won't keep their park clean. How many were out on the water in a boat removing trash from Three Mile Creek? ZERO. NADA. ZILCH. Zero is the Typical effort of the CIty of Mobile puts into removing trash from trash impaired waterways. That is why the creeks in Mobile like Three Mile Creek are never clean. Where does much of the trash in Mobile's polluted waterways come from? I went for a bike ride today after having been on an enjoyable vacation Florida. The bike ride brought me back to the realities in Mobile. UGLY! Butt Ugly! Same ol Same ol... Click on any image below to bring up a photo gallery view to see larger size images with commentary. Seeing all that trash seen on the bike ride put me in a sour mood. Then I pass by this guy using a loud speaker to broadcast his preaching across the grocery store parking lot. Hehhehheh. Some of you probably know where I'm going with this. So I went over and politely ask the guy what church he was with. "Don't need a church if you have Jesus." Then he stuck the bible in the air and started babbling Jesus crap to me. That did it. "Hey mister. You really believe in that book?" Guy obvious does. "Can you tell me the ten laws or commandments that are at the foundation of the Bible?" More babble. "Can you name the Ten Commandments?" He says no but he can flip to the page and read them from the Bible. The goober does not know the Ten Commandments yet he is going to hold up a bible in my face and preach about Jesus? Who creates evil? The Lord. The Bible says so in Isaiah 45:7 Then the Lord puts the evil in grocery store parking lots to spew babble in order to get your money in his golden plastic garbage can sitting on a golden plastic pedestal while he tells you basic biblical morals don't matter. Jeesh!
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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: 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! Michael Brannon, with Fox10 News did video report, "Mobile Bay Keeper: Litter trap workin." The report quotes City of Mobile official Bob Haskins, talking about the Eslava Creek Litter Trap, “To a point, it’s doing a good job.”
The litter trap boom was under water last night after the small one inch rain in one hour. How can it do a good job when MOST of the trash floats over it? Yo Bob and Michael, get a clue. The Litter Trap is NOT working. Don't believe me? Come kayaking with me in the raw sewage after a heavy rain. Here are some photos taken today along 3-4 miles of shoreline downstream of the litter trap - the usual area inundated with storm water litter. You're right it is unsafe to kayak in raw sewage. Put a 24 hour video camera up to video the litter trap instead. Any time it rains at over an inch of rain per hour sustained for at least an hour, the litter trap will go under water. It is the gully washer rains that flush the trash into the cree Click on any photo below to bring up a larger view photo gallery. Storm water trash passing black line #7 is the sum total of the trash coming from points #1 thru #6 which are other tributaries and ditches. City of Mobile public works says the new Litter Trap is expected to catch 70 percent of the trash floating past Point 1 in Eslava Creek. Storm water trash will continue to flow freely from tributaries #2 thru #6 and can be expected to accumulate downstream in Dog River where it typically ends up after heavy rains. Downstream Dog River residents should not expect much more than a 12-20 percent reduction of litter if the City of Mobile can ever get the Litter Trap working. A costly project for such a low reduction of litter.
Why doesn't the City of Mobile just put a worker out in a boat removing the trash after each heavy rain? It would produce way better results and probably be would be cheaper than installing and maintaining a dozen litter traps... 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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