The calibrated stakes depend on longer durations of heavy rain to show the amount sediments transported. Such sites exist throughout the city of Mobile and all have improperly maintained erosion controls. It seems the average contractor operating throughout the region absolutely does not care or doesn t realize just how much their careless construction habits actually affect the drainage of the Dog River Watershed. Anything living in the Dog River Watershed, plant or animal is also affected directly or indirectly. Natural flora and fauna are being choked to death by sand and gravel, red clay is transported in suspension rapidly downstream to help fill up Dog River, and people, along with animals, are flooded out.
Yearly rainfall is high and sometimes extremely excessive in Mobile.
When you combine this with the numerous concrete drainage ditches and construction sites, you can expect to have problems. For this project, I used three different construction sites and three simple methods for research. The sites were picked due to the visible evidence of sedimentation. Second Creek runs through this site. This massive construction has cleared a large area of land and made an underground culvert to contain and drain the small stream that is also found here.