Public litter ends up accumulating in Public waterways because of the failure of law enforcement to catch the criminals (it shouldn't be their job anyways), failure of the punishment of getting caught littering to deter the criminal act of littering (caning sounds acceptable), and failure of the City of Mobile to remove the trash from the dry roadside ditches and from their trash impaired waterways after heavy rains.
Casi Callaway with Mobile Baykeeper talked about waterway litter in a recent news story on WKRG called, Litter Continues to Plague Mobile Waterways. Casi told Tiffany with WKRG that "Litter is a three fold problem - starting with individual responsibility, the city making efforts to clean it up and law enforcement agencies enforcing the law." Casi believes, "the city needs to have more permanent cleanup crews in place to address the problem." She got that right!
Mobile's Bay Of Pigs are acting irresponsible. Law enforcement is lacking and the City makes no effort to remove the trash. This three fold failure is what supplies me with a never ending source of ugly photos.
Today the Mall area was spared the heavy rains but the middle portion of Dog River watershed got about 2.5 inches of rain in an hour and that affected Moore Creek.
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