Littering in Mobile has no borders. Like the City of Mobile, Mobile County also has an ADEM permit governing how the County deals with storm water trash pollution.
Just who is responsible for mowing through the trash along Hamilton Blvd? Just who is responsible for maintaining roadside ditches along County roads and removing the trash?
Does the City of Mobile have the authority to hold Mobile County financially responsible for clean up of the trash flushed from county roads into City waterways?
Why didn't the Dog River Clearwater Revival include Mobile County and other NPDES permit holders in their intent to sue due to storm water trash pollution filed years ago? Other ADEM permit holders like Mobile County and ALDOT are just as responsible for the trashing of waterways in the City limits if the trash ignored in their jurisdiction is flushed into the City's watersheds by natural rain events.
How many Mobile County workers are employed full time removing trash from trash polluted waterways in Mobile? How about ALDOT? Far as I know all combined between the City, County and ALDOT, there are ZERO people employed to remove trash from trash polluted waterways downstream of their trashy roadside drainage ditches which they ignore.
All I know is ignored roadside trash whether it is on a County road, a City road or a State road is UGLY. The growing roadside litter problem results in denser trash pollution of our public waterways.
Knowing the roadside litter ends up polluting local waterways why do the City, County and State employ no one to remove the trash pollution from trash polluted waterways in Mobile County?
From the viewpoint of the seat of my kayak, the City and County and State don't give a damn how much trash rots in roadside ditches or what is in Mobile County waterways. Sadly, despite years of complaints the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are incapable of dealing with a simple visible trash pollution problem. That is the Ugly truth.