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?