"Will the litter trap withstand TS Karen?
Video News Report Link: Fox 10 TV Report
Ms. Murphy said Dog River appears to be clean and the litter trap appears to be doing its job.
Hahahahaha! Dog River is NOT clean and the Litter Trap has NEVER worked properly.
I went out to the litter trap today at the height of Karen's waning wrath in Mobile.
Not a single piece of storm water litter was seen floating down Eslava Creek.
No chance for a litter trap failure today because rains were not heavy.
A litter trap is only useful in heavy rain events because it is heavy rain events
that flush large amounts of roadside litter down into the creeks.
Yet, leaders and reporters are expecting a little heavy rain to break the litter trap?
Why did the environmental group Dog River Clearwater Revival
demand the City install a litter trap if they expect heavy rain to overwhelm it?
Duh!
Meantime, the trash downstream in Dog River that was there last year (including hazardous material)
is still there today because no one sees any reason why it should be removed.
Duh!
What overwhelms the cheap ass DESMI litter trap is heavy rain
because the litter trap is of the wrong design for the high velocity storm water ditch.
What were the engineers thinking as they installed it where the velocity is greatest?
Mobile had quite a few days of advanced warning about Hurricane Karen.
Did City Public Works get out and remove all the roadside trash
to keep the storm water litter from being washed into Dog River?
Nope. Just look at the below photo.
News stations were quick to advise home owners
to get out and remove loose objects from their yards
in preparation for "Hurricane Karen."
It is no surprise that the City of Mobile ignored the loose roadside litter.
It is no surprise that Property Owners ignored the loose roadside litter.
The City of Mobile has no leadership.
The City of Mobile has no enforcement of Litter Codes.
Environmental groups are too busy throwing parties to care about trash impaired rivers.
And Reporters like Candace put out misleading videos
reporting that Dog River appears Clean
and that the Litter Trap appears to be doing its job.
Just wait until we have a heavy rain and all the trash like seen in the photo below
is actually flushed into Dog River and floats right over the litter trap.
Mobile is not in the state of Alabama. Mobile is in the state of Denial.