No Improvement in Dog River

I heard scuttlebutt from a source that the City of Mobile's new litter boat crew will not remove the City's storm water trash from the shoreline of private properties. That is where the majority of trash pollution is. The trashy shoreline in the above photo is a City Park. Nothing preventing City workers from removing trash from the City Park shoreline except for committment to clean up trashy Dog River.

Talk is cheap. A City councilman says the City may be doing more than they should to Clean up Dog River. To me, it appears the City of Mobile does not give a shit about Dog River at all and they certainly do not care to keep City parks clean. The City of Mobile sets the standard for keeping properties free of trash. As the community sees how the City does not care, residents also become apathetic about litter.

Dog River Park shoreline typically looks like a garbage dump because City workers ignore the shoreline trash easily removed by a grabber or net. Where is the Media on this 5 year old issue? Where are the Environmental enforcment agencies, environmental groups, and environmental lawyers? Why are they not suing the hell out of the City of Mobile for ignoring waterway pollution? Mobile and Alabama leadership reminds me of Flint Michigan leadership. Something is corrupt when visible pollution is ignored.

This is Willow Run Creek. It is yet another trashy tributary in Dog River watershed. Why is it trashy? The trash pollution is ignored year after year. Still no improvement in the Dog River trash pollution.

Someone says the City of Mobile has a litter removal boat. If the City has a litter removal boat the crew must be on vacation 7 days a week or they must be spending most of their time playing on their phone or are fishing instead removing trash. I have never seen a litter removal boat and all the tributaries in Dog River remain polluted with trash.

Ugly Photo Bombing in Dog River

Pink Iris next to some blue Iris. The background has been photo bombed by a City of Mobile garbage cart. That is no surprise. Trash pervades in the big Dog River watershed garbage dump. And the Dog River storm water trash pollution persists because there still seems to be no one employed full time to regularly remove the trash.

If the City of Mobile or the State of Alabama or the local residents and businesses had a real plan to keep the polluted Dog River watershed clean, the shoreline would not be trashy all year long like seen in the above photo clearly visible across from the City's Dog River Park.

What is up in Mobile?

Clear cutting is par for the course in Alabama. This large plot of land next to Walmart in Tillman's Corner has been cleared either to make it more sellable or it is being prepared for some sort of development.

Of no surprise, the illegal trash dump at the end of the Rangeline Service Road next to Walmart continues to be ignored year after year...that is Ugly.

Trash in the ditch along Rangeline Road (State Road) is ignored as well as weeds that partially hide the fire hydrant. Alabama has money problems and it apparently cannot afford to maintain its infrastructure.

Erosion on this Gilliard Road roadside has covered part of the sidewalk in sand so thick bicycles will crash trying to ride across it.

Speaking of erosion, Municipal Park Lakes are filling up with dirt that erodes from park shorelines and from upstream erosion from Tewlve Mile Creek. Shoreline erosion is one of the consequences of the City of Mobile regularly killing the shoreline weeds around the Lakes.

Uncontrolled Municipal Park erosion can clearly be seen in the above photo filling in the lake with dirt. It will cost taxpayers dearly to repair the erosion damage by dredging the lakes and Three Mile Creek. If Municipal Park was a construction site the Park Owner (City) could be fined for polluting the environment due to lack of erosion controls. As the waterways fill with dirt, rain water levels will rise possibly causing more severe flooding in heavy rains.

Eroded dirt is so high against this unmaintained silt fence on College Street construction site that dirt overtops the silt fence and is free to erode into the drainage gutter. Obviously the State and City rules and regulations and required construction site monitoring are falling short of controlling erosion into area waterways.

Hell, City leaders cannot even control where one time use disposable recyclable trash ends up. Humans are stupid for filling their waterways with dirt and trash. It does not take a scientist to understand that everything that goes into the water displaces water causing the water level to rise. Think worse flooding in the future.

Speaking of stupidity, even though the American Disibility Act has been in force for over 25 years, they are still building sidewalks with wheelchair unfriendly 6 inch curb drops at intersections in Mobile.

Litter Advertising

What is all that paper littering the Mobile Convention Center?

Umm, Easter is over. Thank you Penelope House, Obicon and Quest Con for littering downtown Mobile with your trash!