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.