Decomposition of Storm Water Trash

It is said aluminum cans take 80-200 years to decompose. I think decomposition of aluminum cans happens faster in water as cans like seen in the above photo are definitely being assimulated into the environment quickly. What is in Dog River? A lot more aluminum than normal because Dog River is teeming with decomposing aluminum cans.

It is said plastic bottles take 450 to 1000 years to decompose. Merely speculation because none of last century's plastic bottles have decomposed yet. I certainly have never seen a plastic drink bottle in any state of decomposition.

Worse yet, bottles made with PolyEthylene Terephthalate (PET) will NEVER biodegrade. Virtually all single-serving and 2-liter bottles of carbonated soft drinks and water sold in the U.S. are made from PET. Plastic bottles can be recycled but Alabama ranks #46 when it comes to eco-friendly behavior like recycling plastics, #50 being the worst. No wonder why Alabama's roadsides, ditches and waterways are so littered with plastic bottles. The retards in the Alabama legislator are afraid to legislate laws that promote recycling. Hence the former "Alabama the Beautiful" is now known as "Trash Home Alabama."

It is said glass bottles take 1 MILLION years to decompose. No issue here because at the rate humans are altering their living spaceship with hazardous chemicals, trash and nuclear waste, humans will be extinct in a few hundred years.

What is on TV?

What is on TV? Not much other than Scum. 

This generation is filling the Earth's irreplaceable living waterway arteries with hazardous electronic material pollution. That is the UGLY truth.

No one will remove this TV from Dog River despite this specific hazardous material TV being reported to the City of Mobile and all the Environmental Protection Agencies and legislators.

Idiocracy is coming to America as more and more Cities and States are being governed by imbeciles who sit back and do nothing about the hazardous pollution rotting in our waterways.

Not to worry. The poisoning of Earth's all connected water will lead to the poisoning of more and more people leading to more retards getting elected. There will be consequences to future generations for the irresponsibility of this generation.

Fleecing the Public in Mobile

Normal parking price at events at the Mobile Convention Center like during this past weekend's big boat show is $5.

Boy how quick the price of parking goes up at the Mobile Convention Center during Mardi Gras. On this particular Saturday the price doubled.

The Mobile Convention Centers even triples the price of parking during Mardi Gras.

If Gas Stations are not allowed to fleece the public by doubling or tripling their Gas prices overnight to take advantage of some situation like a storm or a big event, why is the City of Mobile Convention facility allowed to get away with fleecing the public through price gouging? 

What the sorry ass City of Mobile is doing is comparable to walking into McDonalds during Mardi Gras to find all the food prices tripled. It would be like having to pay $6 per gallon of gas on Mardi Gras weekend even though a day earlier gas was only $2 a gallon. It would be like if the power went out on a hot weekend and stores jacked up the price on their ice by three times to take advantage of the demand.

Shame on the Mobile Convention Center for their Ugly price gouging during Mardi Gras! Someone should go to jail.

MAA's Ugly Drainage Ditch

Mobile Airport Authority ignores the trash in their highly trashed drainage ditch.

The three quarter mile long 6th Street drainage ditch at Brookley empties directly into Mobile Bay. 

Yup. Here in America corporations like Mobile Airport Authority are allowed to ignore polluted ditches on their property. This neglect contributes to the pollution of State and Federal waterways.

Of course Mobile Airport Authority can thank the City of Mobile for their polluted drainage ditch because many of the drainage ditches in the City of Mobile remain littered with trash 99 percent of the year. That means any time it rains heavily the City's neglected ditch litter gets flushed further downstream.

It does not do the Environment any good when the City and Corporations ignore their ditch litter all year long, year after year. 

Why doesn't the City of Mobile's Litter Enforcement Department fine property owners for not removing the trash from their drainage ditches?

Oooh, Oooh!  Last I heard, it was the City of Mobile that was responsible for maintaining the drainage ditches in the City limits. Obviously the City's Litter Enforcement is not going to fine their own City for shirking the City's responsibility which is to maintain the City's municipal separate stormwater sewer system (MS4). Even the City of Mobile admitted on TV to a news station that the City has not been maintaining their drainage ditches as they should have been doing.

So leaders in the City of Mobile and of corporations like Mobile Airport Authority all pretend the environmental plastic ditch pollution does not exist. These pollution photos show what leaders in Mobile are ignoring. 

Why doesn't the Alabama Department of Environmental Management do something? What about the US EPA? Both were made aware of the pollution in this Mobile Airport Authority drainage ditch. Even the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) was made aware of this polluted ditch years ago.

Welcome to Mobile Alabama where soccer fields, museums, ice skating rinks and german corporations like AirBus get all the priority while the environment gets almost none. Got Cancer Yet?

Ugly Canal Street

View of a trashy vacant lot across from a Mobile County Corrections facility on Canal Street. Looks like it has been a long time since anyone mowed and edged the public right-of-way. Also typical in Mobile are storm water inlets like this being overgrowing by weeds which compromises the ability of rain water to drain. No wonder why so many downtown streets flood. Property owners like Mobile County do not care how trashy the neighbor's property is.

Ugly Mowing Standards

This is the trash view someone left after mowing an industrial lot on South Royal Street. There be some real low mowing standards in Mobile. There be even lower standards when it comes to enforcement of Mobile's municipal litter code which require business owners to keep their property free of litter along public roadsides. 

This property supposedly managed by American Foods. I certainly hope American Foods have higher standards inside thier facility than they do outside their facility.

The guilty party sitting on a mower.

But maybe I came to a rash conclusion you may be thinking. The mowing person may not have been done with the job. He could have removed the trash after I left. 

That is why the above photo was taken a couple days later when the worker was certainly done.

Pickled Consequences

One of Mobile's popular illegal trash dumps is Conception Street Road.

Hopefully whoever dumped this load of beer bottles along the road eventually suffers from a crippling liver disease. 

Obviously the litter chunker already suffers from brain damage because normal people discard their empties in trash receptacles.

Ugly River Landing Condos Shoreline

Big Heron standing on the shoreline. Only a few pieces of trash visible on the shoreline. All looks well in the Dog River paradise. Looks can be deceiving.

Paddle up closer to the shoreline and you can see the trash is actually denser on the shoreline. In addition, plenty of trash is visible in the water.

Indeed, the shoreline is very trashy.

And all this trash compliments of the community of Mobile's litter chunkers.

So all is NOT well in Dog River.

Obviously Condo owners do not give a shit about their trash polluted shoreline. Neither does the City of Mobile who is responsible for delivery of the storm water trash pollution into Dog River. 

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management is inept when it comes to dealing with existing waterway pollution in Alabama. That is the Ugly truth as I see it from the seat of a kayak.

Another Wasted Winter

Much of the shoreline grasses die back during winter exposing the City of Mobile's storm water trash like seen here on this small island in Dog River. Winter is the best time for the community and City Public Works to hold an intensive shoreline clean up because the vegetation has died back and the snakes and bugs are noticably absent.

Sunset while kayaking on Dog River. 

Unfortunately the idiots who organize waterway clean ups in Mobile do their clean ups in April or September when vegetation is growing and hiding the trash and the bugs and snakes are active.

Another Winter Season is almost over and it was another perfect opportunity to mobilize workers like they do for Mardi Gras to remove ALL the shoreline trash in Dog River. 

Community leaders in Mobile are not smart enough to realize their public waterways are polluted with vast amounts of trash and need a thorough cleaning. Government is failing to monitor the increasing pollution of our waterways and failing to punish communities like Mobile that pollute their waterways. Government is broken, but we all know that.

Dog River Petroleum Pollution

Someone has added a new derelict boat to Dog River watershed. (left boat). The boat on the right has been abandoned for so many years there is a tree trying to grow inside the boat.

Unfortunately the partially sunken boat is leaking petroleum into the water leaving a sheen on the surface.

If there is a disabled car or truck sitting on the side of a road leaking chemicals onto the ground, a hazmat unit would be called to contain the leak and the vehicle would be towed away swiftly. Smart response.

When there is a disabled boat blocking part of a waterway leaking chemicals into the water, it is allowed to sit there year after year blocking part of the waterway while the chemicals keep polluting the waterway. That is asinine.

There is protocol in Alabama to deal with disabled or abandoned vehicles along public roadways. But there is NO protocol at all to deal with disabled and abandoned boats polluting waterways. Hell, no one even regularly inspects waterways in Alabama for polluting boats. Why not?

Leaders in Alabama and Cities like Mobile and Environmental Enforcement agencies like ADEM obviously don't give a fuck about waterway pollution. That unfortunately is the Ugly truth. 

Got Cancer Yet?

Now They Decide to Investigate?

New artificial turf field at Sage Avenue Park aka Herndon Park. Sort of dumb to be putting concrete near where people will be falling.

Artificial turf is made with plastic grass filled with rubber crumbs from old tires. The loose tiny rubber particles go flying into the air as people run and fall on the field.

The artificial turf rubber fields at Herndon Park cost taxpayers $1,672,080.

But is playing on rubber crumbs safe? It appears leaders have decided to let kids be the guinea pigs...

Rubber crumbs are made from recycled tires that can contain about 30 different hazardous substances including lead [1].

A leading soccer player says playing on artificial turf is a "Nightmare." Some players say injuries from falling on plastic grass and rubber crumbs are far worse than falling on natural grass and dirt [2].

Turf fields are reported to be much hotter than natural grass fields [2]. That adds to global warming. How hot is hot? Brigham Young University recorded that their artificial turf field reached a surface temperature of 200 degrees (F) on a 98 degree day [4]. Exposing children to hotter ball fields puts them at greater risk to dehydration and overheating injuries. 

Even a soccer coach is concerned over the growing number of soccer goalies playing on artificial turf that have developed a cluster of blood and other type cancers. 

Finally, the government, apparently tired of the CDC stalling on answering the question of whether plastic and rubber artificial turf fields are safe or not are said to be starting their own investigation [3]. So nice of the health departments to START investigating into the long term health effects of playing on fields of rubber crumbs now that 10 to 20 Thousand fields of rubber crumbs have been built...

Leave it to Mobile leaders to let kids tumble hard on soccer fields made with rubber crumbs . . . rubber crumbs from tires that may contain hazardous amounts of lead and other chemicals.

Assuming the City of Mobile has to do absolutely no maintenance to the new Artificial Turf fields at Herndon Park for the next 10 years, and assuming the fields are used every weekend, what is the cost to use Herndon Park soccer fields based on the cost of installing it? The cost is $1,607 each Saturday and Sunday for Ten Years.

I certainly hope the teams using the rubber fields at Herndon Park are required to pay a significant fee to the City of Mobile each time they play on the field to help pay for their petroleumized playground. The players may end up paying much more if it turns out that rubber fields are hazardous to human health and cause cancer and other illnesses.

I cannot believe taxpayer money keeps being wasted on parks while basic infrastructure like sidewalks and roads are crumbling and becoming dangerous to use, and parks cannot afford to empty their garbage cans. 

But when cities elect people based on their color instead of on their common sense and wise leadership, people like Fred Richardson end up in charge of making decisions with taxpayer money. Idiots of all colors are quick to vote to squander millions of dollars of taxpayer money on projects like PUBLIC ball fields made of tiny pieces of rubber tires made with hazardous materials. That is Ugly!

Crumb rubber from tires contains benzothiazole, which “exerts acute toxicity and is a respiratory irritant and a dermal sensitizer. Carbon black, which makes up 20-40% of crumb rubber, has been identified as a CANCER CAUSING chemical by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.  Another concern is allergic reactions to the latex in crumb rubber [4].

The good news is all these soccer players lobbying to get the City of Mobile to install rubber crumb fields will be the ones suffering from the long term health effects.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story//2015/03/15/artificial-turf-health-safety-studies/24727111/

[2] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/artificial-turf-debate/us-soccer-star-abby-wambach-playing-turf-nightmare-n371906

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2016/02/13/government-finally-to-look-into-possible-link-between-artificial-turf-and-cancer/#3fd3aeae30cf

[4] http://www.ceh.org/get-involved/take-action/a-cocktail-of-harmful-chemicals-in-artificial-turf-infill/

Ugly Love

Valentine's Day trash was found floating in Dog River yesterday. It does not take long for ritualistic trash to end up polluting the Earth's waterways. 

It is Ugly to say "I Love You" with a one time use lighter than air floating piece of trash.

It appears other people know "The Ugly Truth" about balloons. You can read other reasons why balloons are bad at the following link:

http://balloonsblow.org/the-ugly-truth/

AirBus Jets

These are big AirBus jet parts shipped from Germany seen in the above photo sitting at the Alabama State Docks waiting to be assembled in Mobile. After assembly of the German built jet parts in Mobile, I guess the German manufacturer can put a stamp on the new jetliners saying, "Made in the USA" even though the bulk of the work was done elsewhere.

Wasn't it just this past generation that Germany captured and marched 10-20 Million innocent people including women and children into death camps for mass human slaughter? 

How nice it is of Alabama and Mobile leaders to reward the recent Nazi killing machine country by hosting a brand new German AirBus Jet manufacturing facility at Brookley in Mobile. Talk about Ugly!

Common sense tells me that it should be cheaper to assemble jet parts where they are built in Germany. To put large jet units made in Germany on a ship and move them all the way across the Atlantic ocean for assembly in Mobile has to add significant risk and cost to the final AirBus Jet products. Adding unnecessary cost to a product does not make sense. The consumer will no doubt pay for the excess cost to manufacture AirBus Jets in Mobile. But, maybe Germany has ulterior motives...like corporate takeover of its not long ago enemy, America. Mobile's motive for bending over backwards for Germany's AirBus facility has to Money. Money. Money. Money which Mobile leaders can waste on stupid ass projects while they let the infrastructure crumble.

Meantime, between Airbus and other related construction at Mobile Airport Authority properties at Brookley, years of construction site erosion continue to pollute Mobile area waterways with sediment and silt. A waterway I used to paddle a kayak in is now too shallow to kayak due to sediment from Brookley.

Waterway pollution is not progress, rather it is a sign of irresponsible leadership, corporate greed, neglect and Environmental Pollution Enforcement Agencies asleep. It appears big corporations with big money can do whatever the hell they want to the environment.

The dark clear water (seen contrasting with the tan water near the top) is normal while the very turbid tan muddy water coming from the pipe is typical of the construction site erosion and sediment coming from Mobile Airport Authority for about the last THREE years despite Multiple complaints about the muddy water pollution to ADEM and the US EPA.

Above photo taken this past week shows where water recently draining from a Brookley construction site left a coating of sediment a quarter inch thick on the grass in a roadside ditch that drains into Robinson Bayou of the Dog River Watershed. Who is going to pay to dredge the Dog River Watershed to remove the construction site sediment? Probably not those polluting it. 

Trashy Alabama State Docks property about a tenth of a mile from the AirBus Jet parts. Leaving trash around storm water inlets contributes to the MS4 trash pollution of local waterways.

This is the MS4 polluted shoreline of Alabama State Docks property along Three Mile Creek after years of complaints. ASD does not seem to give a fuck about the trash pollution on their waterfront properties some of which will be carried down to Mobile Bay in a future flooding rain.

Two of the major contributers of Mobile area waterway pollution are Mobile Airport Authority and Alabama State Docks. From what I have witnessed neither of them care much about Mobile's precious waterways. Both appear too busy trying to increase their business and profit at the expense of the health of future generations.

I cannot wait to see what kind Jets are produced in an irresponsible Mobile Alabama community that has major businesses that do not care how much they pollute the public waterways in Alabama.

Will there be a rash of AirBus airliner jets made in Mobile crashing in the future because they were made in a trashy polluted community known to be one of the most miserable places to live in America? 

Of course, maybe Germany has higher standards and will not allow the litter chunkers in Mobile to work inside their facility and will be able to create quality jets. In that case, I hope Germany will improve Mobile by coralling all the litter chunkers and marching them into a gas chamber for extermination. Yeah, I know, what a mean and ugly thing to say.

If human life on earth is to be sustained for millions of years in a healthy way then those destroying humanity's only living spaceship in the Universe (Earth) need to be eliminated including leaders of polluting corporations, soon.

But we all know most environment justice will never happen. Cancer is one devastating sign that all is not well on Earth, our only living spaceship in the entire Universe. Got Cancer Yet? Likely a big chemical company has the cure for ten grand a month.

Mobile's Gulf Quest Maritime Museum

I like to poke fun at Mobile's new Gulf Quest Maritime Museum and its nearly empty parking lot every time I go by because of the high traffic prediction for such a uninteresting narrow subject museum that Taxpayer money helped to build. Apparently I am not the only one with suspicions that the expensive Gulf Quest Museum will lose money. 

Here is a sign on a last weeks Comic Cowboy Mardi Gras float in the below photo. Maybe the Gulf Quest Museum facility can be turned into a decent store, ice skating rink or casino after it fails, facilities which downtown Mobile lacks and apparently the public wants. 

I like boats and ships but Gulf Quest Maritime Museum will NEVER see a dime of my money because the Maritime industry just does not interest me. Especially when Maritime industries like the Alabama State Port Authority are contributing to the pollution of Mobile Bay by ignoring the trash on their shorelines.

Ugly China Loving Mardi Trash Societies

With weather forecasters issuing high wind warnings (gale force winds), this is what Mobile allows some Mardi Trash Socieities to do with their trash. Instead of putting their trash in proper garbage containers or dumpsters, they dump their  trash on the ground. Where is Mobile's Litter Enforcement Unit?

Trash dumped next a public sidewalk for several days.

How are these boxes ending up so far apart? Wind.

Why put trash in a dumpster when throwing it on the ground is easier?

More irresponsible treatment of trash.

And the result of that irresponsibility is high winds blow some of that trash away.

Another irresponsible Mardi Gras Society that dumps its trash on the ground on the side of a street.

And yes, the high winds blow some of that trash away because it was not properly contained.

Right-of-Way at the end of a public street littered with Mardi Gras Trash because the trash was not put in containers despite the high wind forecasts.

Yeend Street Canal littered with plastic bags compliments of the nearby Mardi Gras Society's illegal streetside garbage dumps.

The China supporting trash Socieities ought be happy that I am not in charge of Mobile's Litter Enforcement Department because if I was in charge a couple of Mardi Gras Socieities would be banned from participating in next year's China's Trashfest Parades plus they would be facing fines in the tens of thousands of dollars to help pay laborers to remove all the trash from waterways polluted with Mardi Gras trash.

Ugly Arlington Park

As predicted, ever since a rain storm propelled some of the Mobile community's litter onto Arlington Park wetlands last year, no one will remove the Mobile Bay shoreline litter. This trash is very visible from the Park's boardwalk.

I simply walked down a path, crossed 10 feet of black needlerush to get to the trash pollution accumulation to take these photos. Did not even get the bottom of my shoes wet. In other words, the Park trash pollution is easy to access.

It makes me sick. The City of Mobile will mobilize 250 workers to remove trash after a Mardi Gras parade at taxpayer expense. But the City will not dedicate even one person to remove the trash left behind after a parade of trash from the City's littered ditches is deposited along the Arlington Park shoreline via Brookley's 6th Street drainage canal.

Obviously the City of Mobile and the State of Alabama and Environmental groups have no plan to deal with timely removal of visible MS4 storm water trash pollution along Mobile Bay and in Public Parks.  That is negligent and retarded.

Ugly Halls Mill Creek

Each year the City of Mobile's MS4 storm water trash gets denser in Halls Mill Creek of the Dog River Watershed because the trash is mostly ignored year after year. That is Ugly!

Storm water trash tends to accumulate along the shoreline in the tidal zone areas.

This is Ugly Halls Mill Creek by a MAWSS Right-of-Way.

Ugly shoreline of Halls Mill Creek of what should be a protected waterway is used as the trashy Mobile Community's Litter Chute.

More trashy MAWSS Right-of-Way. They cut the weeds and leave the trash.

Trash can be found accumulating far into the wetlands of Halls Mill Creek because there has never been a program to remove it, not even once a year or Decade. Polluting waterways and ignoring it year after year is retarded and morally negligent. Someone should go to jail.

The City of Mobile says it cleans 10 miles of streets after every Mardi Gras parade. The City of Mobile says it mobilizes up to 250 people to remove trash purposely thrown on the ground after the Mardi Gras parades.

Sadly, the City of Mobile has not bothered to mobilize even a small work force to remove the trash from the 3-4 miles of trashy Halls Mill Creek shoreline. 

That is because the federal Clean Water Act is a joke and so is the Alabama Department of Environmental Management when it comes to dealing with the pollution of public waterways in Alabama. The City of Mobile's committment to deal with their community's storm water litter is obviously woefully inadequate.

Some storm water trash is hazardous to public health and marine life, like petroleum products and the chemicals in some aerosol cans. An oil container and aerosol can are visible in the above photo.