The poorly designed DESMI litter trap will probably never capture more than a single litter basket of litter and debris from Eslava Creek because the litter basket fails to rise when the storm waters do. The DESMI litter trap Boom goes under water and most of the trash floats right on downstream. During really heavy rains, when the storm water litter is the worst, the entire litter basket goes under water allowing ALL the trash to float downstream.
The City of Mobile knows their litter trap fails because it is well documented. What is the City of Mobile's back up plan to get the storm water litter removed from Dog River when the litter trap malfunctions? No plan. The City ignores trash in their creeks and along the shorelines - even along their City Parks like Dog River Park.
Someone STILL needs to be fired!
Doing nothing to reduce the amount of trash rotting in and along many of Mobile's waterways is still unacceptable.
Fines for violating the Clean Water Act can be up to $37,000 per day.
$37,000 per day is what the Alabama Department of Environmental Management should be fining the City of Mobile for every day that the City has no one working to remove their storm water ditch generated garbage.