With recent rains of almost 3 inches on December 27th, 2014 and almost 3 inches on January 3rd, 2015, (in the Dog River Area) how much storm water litter ended up flowing down Dog River?
Despite the impressive rainfall totals, the rainfall rates were low during the day long rains. Rain runoff did not overwhelm the City's storm drainage system.
Downstream Dog River residents did not see much trash flowing down the River because most of the roadside trash throughout Mobile is still in the drainage ditches (see photo).
Don't let the lack of trash flowing down Dog River during these two rain days lead you to think the City of Mobile has solved their storm water trash problem or that the Litter Trap is working well. There is plenty of trash in area drainage ditches after these two rains just waiting on a heavy rain fall rate to flush it all into the public waterways like Dog River.
Each gentle rain event justs adds more trash to the accumulation in the ditches waiting to be flushed downstream by flooding rains. And there is plenty of trash downstream of the litter trap in Eslava Creek waiting on a heavy rain to flush it downstream into Dog River.
The litter trap must be worthless if it leaves downstream Eslava Creek lined with the City's MS4 trash . . . Trash which the City of Mobile still chooses to ignore.