Yeend Street Ditch is yet another one of Mobile's kayakable polluted urban waterways. I do not know the extent of this drainage basin but the ditch can be traced at least to the I-10 Interstate in downtown Mobile. I call it Yeend Street Ditch because this unnamed waterway crosses under Yeend Street before it drains into Garrow's Bend.
The density of trash along the Yeend Street ditch shoreline reflects the consequence of the City of Mobile's watershed management policy which is to ignore public litter once it enters navigable State Waters.
I keep asking, "How dense does waterway pollution in Mobile have to be before the City devotes even a single worker to removing the trash pollution so as to restore the waterways to their natural healthy attractive state?"
All the public storm water litter education campaigns in the world are not going to put an end to roadside litter. However, downstream storm water litter pollution could be reduced to a minimum if only those in charge of the health of Mobile's waterways had a plan to regularly to remove storm water litter after heavy rains from where it accumulates like here in the Yeend Street Ditch.
Considering the density of storm water litter pollution in not one, but many Mobile urban waterways, for the City and State to not have anyone in charge of keeping the State waterways clean is not only pure stupidity, it borders on being criminal since ignoring the garbage is contributing to the worsening pollution of our precious waterways which undermines the future security of our Nation. I can understand terrorists wanting to see America's waterways polluted to the max, but my own Governor, City Council and Mayor?
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