Ugly Bayfront Park

March 2013 - Overgrown sign and damaged boardwalk. 

May 2015 - Sign now visible but the boardwalk is even in worse condition.

January 2016 - Today 10 foot high weeds hide both the boardwalk and sign.

The wooden boardwalk and interpretive signage at Mobile County's Bayfront Park remains neglected year after year. Bayfront Park is just another blighted park in Mobile County. The pathetic part is there is someone on site at the Park every day. Obviously the Bayfront Park owner does not care about the decaying park infrastructure. That is Ugly!

Polluted As Usual

I paddled by the expensive Stormwater Systems Bandalong litter trap in Eslava Creek yesterday. The shoreline was littered with the City of Mobile's storm water trash, even at the litter trap. Trash was floating around in the water. For this kayaker, the expensive litter trap has not improved the trash polluted scenery in Eslava Creek. 

How is that litter trap doing? Here is a home about half a mile downstream of the litter trap. Again, the shoreline is lined with the City's MS4 trash. ADEM cannot seem to do anything to get the City's MS4 trash removed from the Mobile's waterways.

Eslava Creek and Dog River are STILL polluted. ADEM needs to start fining the City of Mobile on a DAILY basis as long as the City is ignoring their illegal pollution.

Oh, but the City cannot remove trash from private property is one excuse I read as to why trash is happily ignored by the City. Since the City's MS4 system is responsible for delivering Mobile's litter chunker trash onto the shoreline of private properties like seen in these two photos, the City should be obligated to pick up the trash. Instead, ADEM, the US EPA and the City of Mobile and the County of Mobile and the State of Alabame ALL continue to ignore the polluting of our precious public waterways.

Why is it my opinion about environmental care and environmental enforcement agencies and environmental watch dog groups is so negative? Despite complaints to dozens of agencies, groups, and the media about the above Television that is normally floating in the water at high tide, not a single representative of the groups and agencies receiving my written and email complaints bothered to contact me to inquire where the TV is so they could arrange to have it removed from Dog River. 

The UGLY truth is the US EPA, ADEM, the City of Mobile and environmental groups do not give a fuck what is floating in Alabama waterways. 

The UGLY truth is there is no one to contact to get HAZARDOUS materials as defined by the US EPA removed from waterways in polluted Alabama.

The UGLY truth is there is not a single person employed full time to remove trash pollution from Mobile's well documented polluted waterways. That is fucking retarded.

Government WANTS you to get cancer.

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!

Mobile's MS4 Trash Train

Dauphin Island Bridge visible in the background. The City of Mobile's storm water trash is visible along the shoreline of Mobile Bay.

It is rather Ugly to see so much trash lining the State Highway along a Scenic Coastal Route. Who is failing to pick up the Mobile community's storm water trash? How many storm water litter pickers are employed in Mobile County? Still Zero?

It is Mardi Trash time again. Apparently some of the litter chunkers from Mobile attended Dauphin Island's Mardi Trash Parade. The littering criminals left a trail of China's plastic beads on the roadside from Dauphin Island all the way to Alabama Port.

But who cares if the environment gets polluted with more trash? Not the Alabama Department of Environmental Mismanagement. Even the shoreline of Mobile Bay is lined with trash because ADEM continues to allow the City of Mobile to pollute Mobile Bay with trash, some HAZARDOUS to public health and the environment.

What is going on in Mobile reminds me of Flint Michigan. The state of Michigan has let some of their waterways get so polluted that they cannot use the water in the drinking water supply.

Since ADEM is playing blind to the very visible trash pollution of Alabama waterways, I can only imagine what invisible to the eye and untested for chemicals lurk in Alabama's rivers.

McNally Park

Plenty of loose trash left on the ground a couple hundred feet away from Perch Creek at McNally Park. This is what happens when trash receptacles are dysfunctional.

Dysfunctional meaning the garbage receptacle is not securely covered. There are still open slots for scavenger animals to access the trash.

Dysfunctional meaning the garbage can has only narrow slots in it prohibiting the public from tossing larger objects such as a full bag of trash in the can. This causes people to leave larger trash on top of the garbage receptacle or on the ground.

The City of Mobile's archaic dysfunctional garbage receptacles at their City parks often yields the results seen above. Trash pollution next to waterways. That is Ugly!

Waterway Weirs

You would think with this amount of water flowing downstream that it would be impossible to kayak up to this small lowhead dam (known as a "weir" in Mobile) against the current. Wrong.

Hydraulic backwash is a hidden dangerous characteristic of lowhead dams or weirs. The backwash actually draws objects toward the waterfall. It is nearly impossible to escape the strength of the hydraulic spin zone action after an object like a kayak or person gets sucked into a lowhead dam waterfall during heavy water flow.

Lowhead dams are also called "Drowning Machines." Luckily the lowhead dam here on Montlimar Creek where it meets Moore Creek by Halls Mill Road normally flows at a trickle like seen in the above photo so the hydraulic spinning forces are weak. Even during weak flow the forces were still strong enough to draw the kayak to the waterfall.

This above photo is the same weir drop off when the water levels were higher due to rain runoff. You can actually see a dip in the water level just past the water fall.

Again, same weir (lowhead dam) location on Montlimar Creek after a heavy rain. In this view you can see a football and other trash trapped by the waterfall hydraulic action. The football kept getting sucked under water and then it would pop back up for a few seconds only to be sucked back under water again.

The same deadly trapped spinning action would happen to a kayak or a person or even a motorboat if any of them got near this lowhead dam during similar creek water levels.

The pathetic thing is not a single lowhead dam in Montlimar Creek or Three Mile Creek in Mobile has a warning sign to alert upstream kayakers or canoeists to the presence of the downstream lowhead dams. That is the Ugly truth. The City of Mobile is going to wait for someone to die before it will put up signs to warn waterway users of the deadly lowhead dam hazards.

Political Campaign Trash

Saw a campaign sign embedded in the side of Moore Creek today.

So who is responsible for this City of Mobile storm water trash? 

Hahaha! It is Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson. Thanks for personally polluting Dog River Watershed Mayor Stimpson with YOUR campaign trash.

That is all the Moore reason the polluting Mobile Mayor should dedicate at least one full time City employee to remove the City's storm water trash as long there is shoreline trash to properly dispose of.

I wonder where that litter removal boat that ADEM required the City of Mobile to put to work is. The clean up boat certainly cannot be in Dog River Watershed.