Ugly Roadside Maintenance

Nov 2014

Jun 2016

This is the Ugly trashy service road a few hundred yards from Walmart in Tillman's Corner. A year and a half and the roadside trash is still there. It appears neither the City, County or State, not to mention Walmart gives a shit what the roads in their area look like. Typical of a community on its way to decay and economic collapse.

Ugly D'Olive Creek

Storm Water Trash is also a problem in Baldwin County. Here are some photos taken in the tidal zone of upper D'Olive Creek.

Obviously no one removes the trash pollution from this trash polluted creek. Just another example of the neglect of waterway pollution in Alabama.

Who is is responsible for keeping the creek clean? Spanish Fort? They are totally neglecting their responsibility.

One source of trash pollution in the creek is obvious. People driving the Interstate.

Prisoners on rare occasions remove trash from Interstate roadsides but they never seem to remove the trash from the shorelines beneath bridges. That is neglect of waterway pollution.

Spreading The Ugly

So how does Ugly trash get spread on the ground at public parks in Mobile? A trash spreader! The trash spreader in the above photo is digging trash out of the trash can at Helen Wood Park. Note the trash on the ground.

Overflowing trash cans attract trash spreaders yielding open trash bags and loose trash leaving it free to blow into the nearest waterway or ditch.

The prominence of trash spreaders aka dumpster divers is a direct consequence of an Ugly dysfunctional trash recycle program in the State of Alabama. There is no incentive for the public to recycle their recyclable trash. So there is plenty of trash worth money to the scavengers to dig for.

Alabama is a conservative state and resists change. The idiots making the laws to govern the people in the State of Alabama are unwilling to deal with the decades old problem of empty single use beverage containers littering the roadsides in increasing numbers.

Fantasy King Governor Robert Bentley is probably too busy talking on the phone about fondling the breasts of his female staff to have time to deal with real day problems.

Ugly Zika Virus

Recently heard on the news: “Mobile poised to be ground Zero for the Zika virus.” Wow! The media is already generating hysteria about the Zika mosquito virus. If Local Media in Mobile is at all concerned about the potential health hazard of the Zika virus, the Media should constantly air hard hitting investigations and stop being so nice to the City of Mobile leaders and other governmental entities. As the City of Mobile ignores mosquito breeding grounds so will the public.

Only the Media can put duress on the City of Mobile leaders and others to make them accountable for their less than marginal performances and maintenance of infrastructure.

Standard engineering practices required by the City of Mobile force some developers to build detention ponds. Detention/Retention ponds are now located all over Mobile. Maybe creating ponds where stagnant water sits is not a good practice. Some detention ponds retain water long enough for mosquitoes to proliferate.

Image 1. Above photo shows a Detention Pond holding water at Wright Transportation off DIP. Nov 2015. 

The City of Mobileʼs neglect of its storm drainage system yields another mosquito breeding nightmare. Many ditches fail to properly drain due to lack of maintenance. The City of Mobile is only one of many Governmental entities at fault for neglect of the drainage on their properties. Blocked inlets and pipes, overgrown curb and gutters, concrete ditches with trees growing in them, ditches blocked from illegal dumping and the list of causes of drainage blockages goes on.

Image 2. Above photo taken at Rabbit Creek Drive and Hamilton Blvd. This trashy ditch is unable to drain to the creek about 100 yards away and has been like this for years. Either ALDOT or the City of Mobile is not keeping the Hamilton Blvd. drainage system functional. The City of Mobile stopped maintaining Rabbit Creek Drive shortly after it annexed the roadway into the City. May 2016.

Image 3. The above image shows a concrete Gutter on Gill Road in Mobile that does not drain due to lack of maintenance. Nov. 2015.

Image 4. Watersheds in Mobile are highly neglected and poorly monitored. Not only are many boats sitting in the water without having a current license decal, some boats are mosquito breeding grounds. Stagnant water in this boat was seen in Paynes Creek (Dog River Watershed). Apr 2016.

Image 5. Above image is storm water trash polluted shoreline of One Mile Creek that I have been complaining to dozens of authorities (and the media) to clean up since 2011. 5 years later and no change despite all the complaints. That is pathetic. Items like this cooler are mosquito breeding grounds. With the mosquito threat, now maybe there is reason to remove the trash. Mar 2016.

Image 6. Shoreline of Dog River. This mosquito breeding storm water trash is about 100 yards from Dog River Park and is ignored year after year. I wonder where that required City of Mobile litter boat that I have never seen is and why it is ignoring shoreline trash like this. Feb 2016.

Image 7. City of Mobileʼs Schwartz Park off Riviere Du Chien Road. This City property is used by the public. It is a Dog River Scenic Blueway kayak launch site. Mobile needs to eliminate mosquito breeding places. The only way that will happen is if the Media shames City leaders, the public, and businesses by airing stories on the existing problems being ignored. The media needs to get tough on the City of Mobile! May 2016.

Ugly Norms in Mobile

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.

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.

Ugly Mobile County

March 2013. Trashy popular fishing hole on Dauphin Island Parkway next to Heron Bay Cut.

January 2016. Almost 3 years later and the property owner (Mobile County) still has not picked up the litter from their property. Fishing Pigs just drive over their litter.

Really Ugly shoreline used by Fishing Pigs, Hunters and TNP animal wackos. Just like the City of Mobile, Mobile County does not give a shit what the public does with the Mobile County property either. It is ignored waterfront pollution as usual along the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama. Enjoy your polluted Alabama Seafood!

Ugly Roadside Maintenance

In Mobile the roadsides are littered with trash and it is standard for those maintaining the right-of-ways to mow thru the trash instead of removing it. (Middle Road)

Leaving roadsides littered encourages more public littering as the public accepts a trashy City as normal. That is Ugly. (Dauphin Island Parkway)

Is mowing thru roadside trash acceptable? Not in a community that cares. (Dauphin Island Parkway)

If someone covered up a stop sign it would be considered a crime. If someone covers up road traffic paint, it is normal in Mobile. Someone left grass a foot high on the road covering the white line in violation of City municipal code but no one cares. Ignorance, apathy, and stupidity are on the increase in Alabama thanks poor leadership. (Dauphin Island Parkway)