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. 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. Click on a thumbnail below for a larger view with commentary.
Look how easy it was to find City of Mobile Municipal Litter Code violations.
Where is Mobile's Litter Enforcement? Missing In Action. Click on any thumbnail to view larger images with commentary in a Photo Gallery. A few scenes from a ride to Downtown Mobile. Click on a thumbnail for the photo gallery with commentary.
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.
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? |
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