Ugly Big Creek Lake

Big Creek Lake is where Mobile and other communities get their drinking water. For years I have been complaining to MAWSS about the trash in the lake and on the shoreline. So far the assholes running MAWSS have ignored the complaints and have done absolutely nothing to remove the trash, some of which is hazardous to public health. Went kayaking yesterday to see MAWSS picked up any of the trash last year. Nope.

What is in Mobile's drinking water lake? No one cares what is floating in the lake as long as the few chemicals they test for are within allowable tolerance.

Big new trash floating in Big Creek Lake compliments of Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS).

Dead deer floating in your drinking water. If this deer was on the side of the road there is someone to call to get it removed. There is no one to call to get dead animals removed from the drinking water supply.

Saw lots of oil containers alone the shoreline.

When this can rusts the remaining brake cleaner will leach into the drinking water lake.

Shoreline trash is ignored. Some has been there for probably decades because MAWSS has no program to ever remove the shoreline trash except by the highway where it is convenient to access.

Big Creek Lake, Mobile's drinking water supply is looking more like a garbage dump every year.

Trash, trash and more trash.

I unscrewed the cap on one of the MAWSS ignored pieces of trash floating in the water and guess what came out? I don't know. The bottle had no label. It does not look healthy to drink.

MAWSS certainly does not care. They ought get those political cronies on the MAWSS board to get off their lazy ass to walk the shoreline of Big Creek Lake to remove the garbage.

Meantime, what is in Mobile's drinking water supply and trash dump? No one knows. No one cares as long as the water passes a few tests. Drink up. Got Cancer Yet?

Ugly Flowerwood Nursery

This is a case of a specific waterway polluter called Flowerwood Nursery. Despite complaints about the plastic container pollution, plastic plant containers can be found polluting the wetlands and shorelines of Alligator Bayou all the way to the Dog River and Mobile Bay miles downstream. Environmental Enforcement Agencies, Legislators, Local Environmental Groups, City and State leaders, and even the Media don't give a shit if a business pollutes the public waterways. That is the UGLY truth as I see it from the seat of my kayak.

Polluting Mobile's Waterways With Mardi Trash

With regards to Mardi Gras, the City of Mobile brags on its Public Works department saying they, "Installed 64 grates on storm drains to prevent litter from entering waterways."

Meantime, this is a storm water drain along a main Mobile parade route seen last weekend. No mesh grate on this drain.

Nothing preventing China's Mardi Trash beads, confetti and other trash from going into this storm drain. 

Why is it no surprise to see Mobile's  Public Works doing a half ass job when it comes to preventing the pollution of Mobile waterways with Mardi Trash? They should put narrow mesh grates on all the inlets along the parade routes instead of just some of them. 

Ugly Garbage Pickup Service

This is the scene AFTER the City of Mobile garbage collection service in Mobile, Alabama. And the City has leaders like councilman Freddy Richardson claiming the City certainly plays no role in littering and the pollution of Mobile waterways. 

Well, if City garbage collection service ignores the trash a few feet away from the City's garbage Cart, regardless of whether the trash got on the ground by a dog, from an over stuffed container, from wind blowing over the unstable top heavy container, or from trash falling to the ground during automated arm pickup, the City is guilty of substandard garbage pickup service if they ignore the trash. That is Ugly! 

In this case, if it rains while the trash remains in the drainage ditch it becomes Storm Water Trash and it is likely to end up polluting a public waterway.

Ignoring trash on the ground next to a garbage cart during garbage pickup service makes as much sense as a worker at a car wash tasked with cleaning the car ignoring muddy areas on the car while washing it because "He or She didn't put the mud there in those spots.".

Mobile Bay Trash Dump

Someone has an UGLY tire dump site on the shoreline of Mobile Bay along the so called Crepe Myrtle Bicycle Trail. One new tire has been added to the over three dozen other tires. 

I can give you one reason why the world's ocean levels are rising. There is a LOT of rubber displacing water.

It reminds me of Alabama's artificial reef program. According to the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Alabama has one of the largest artificial reef programs IN THE WORLD. 

Even though the coast of Alabama is only about 70 miles long there are reportedly over 17,000 artificial reefs made by man. That means there is garbage dump about every 21 feet on average hidden under water off the coast of Alabama.

I say garbage dump because artificial reefs are made by dumping military tanks, ships small and large, concrete bridge rubble, metal bridge spans, car bodies, appliances and no telling what other crap is being dumped in the water along the coast to create unauthorized reefs. Everything dumped into the water displaces water causing water levels to rise. It all adds up.

That is Alabama for you. First they fill their drainage ditches with trash. Then they fill their creeks and rivers with trash. Then they fill their Bays with trash. Then they fill their shorelines with trash. Then they turn their tiny Coast into one large dumping ground and brag about. That is UGLY!

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.