Trashy ALDOT property next to a tidally influenced waterway. The City of Mobile is running off the homeless pigs, but will ALDOT or the City of Mobile ever remove the shoreline trash?
Mobile brags about how it is bringing in big industry jobs. Here is a photo of a APM Terminals personnel entrance by the new Container Facility. Note the overflowing garbage cans and trash spilled on the ground and into the parking lot. We do not need polluting trashy industries like this in Mobile!
Trashy shoreline of the City of Mobile's Dog River Park. The idiots who maintain the City park seem to always cut the shoreline weeds but they mostly leave the trash.
The new litter trap in Eslava Creek does not improve the trashy view in upper Dog River. What a stupid design. This old fashioned litter trap technology leaves the trash floating in the water. This litter trap is installed in a tidal zone with a big gap in the boom so trash can float back upstream and then downstream right past the litter trap. This litter trap has no gate to keep the trash inside the boom area. Plus, it has to be costly to mobilize a workforce after every rain to rake the spread out trash into the litter trap baskets for removal. Intelligent litter traps designs use a conveyor belt system to automatically lift the trash out of the water during the rain storm events. The storm water trash gets dumped off the conveyor belt on the ground or in a dumpster for easy access and removal. This litter trap requires a boat so people can push the trash into the litter baskets.
What good is installing an expensive litter trap when the shoreline both upstream and downstream of the litter trap looks like this? Communities suffering from storm water litter pollution should invest in a full time Clean Up Boat operation instead of wasting money on expensive litter traps that leave the waterway trashy.
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