Downtown street paving debris ending up in streams
February 25th, 2009
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) is reviewing results of an inspection of downtown Birmingham’s repaving project following a complaint by Black Warrior Riverkeeper about paving debris left in the gutters and filling inlets from the city’s storm sewers.
Riverkeeper executive director Nelson Brooke said the organization filed the complaint after seeing that old paving material scraped from the street was being left in gutters and storm sewer inlets.
“The debris from the grinding operation had been shoved into the storm drains in multiple places. You are not supposed to throw discarded trash of any type into a stream, let alone asphalt,” Brooke said.
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