Students Paint For Cleaner Water

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N. Section Street.

N. Bancroft Street.


 

STORM DRAIN PROJECT

Fairhope High School art students decorated storm water drains in the downtown to remind us what's put into the drains eventually makes it out into the bay.

TO PROMOTE CLEAN BAY WATER

The Fairhope High School Art Department in conjunction with the Eastern Shore Art Center are installing new artwork around town on some city storm drains to promote cleaner water in the bay.

"Only rain belongs in drains" is the theme; reducing litter and satisfying the city's federal MS4 storm water discharge permit "education and outreach" requirements are goals mentioned as well.

 

N. Church Street.

S. Church Street.


W. Fairhope Avenue.




Location: Fairhope, AL 36532, USA

Comments

Anonymous said…
Storm water management around Fairhope and Baldwin County has been willfully neglected for decades, but the liabilities associated with this neglect are coming due.
Friday, March 06, 2026
Anonymous said…
Litter is the problem. Lots of beads get wahsed in.
Saturday, March 07, 2026
Anonymous said…
Fairhope has a significant litter problem, and it could be so easily managed with volunteer help. There are lots of churches and organizations, including the high school, that need service hours. Neighborhoods could organize a rotating weekly household to pick up their immediate area. The city could easily provide bags & grabber sticks. For a town that relies so heavily on tourism as a major driver of the economy, it is wildly frustrating to see it do nothing to address such a visible issue that our visitors notice. I pick up bags and bags of litter every month, and have now for several years. I do my entire neighborhood weekly. I do the tennis/pickleball park at least every other week. I do other areas every month or so. It takes less than an hour a week to make a dramatic improvement. But there are people who don't care at all. There is a dog owner, and maybe more than one, who uses the free poop bags at the tennis courts, and then tosses them into the bushes along the southern edge of the park. Despite being able to see multiple garbage cans 100 yards away. Coastal Cleanup is a nice gesture, but an annual event does little more than make someone feel good for a few minutes about doing something. Actual improvement comes from continuous effort. I urge anyone who would like to understand the scope of the problem to go park at somewhere near Old Tyme Feed and walk 300 yards in either direction along Greeno and you will suddenly see what is easily ignored at 45 MPH driving by. I asked the mayor to help with this when she was elected five years ago, and got no action in response. People always are quick to express appreciation when I'm out picking up the trash, but I never encounter anyone who has been inspired to join me. I keep hoping to be surprised one day.
Saturday, March 07, 2026
Anonymous said…
What churches need service hours?
Saturday, March 07, 2026
Anonymous said…
Does anyone but me consider all those leftover underground utility marker flags an eyesore, or litter?
Saturday, March 07, 2026
Anonymous said…
just don't put any more silly litter catcher things in the storm drains that cause the streets to wash out!!!
Sunday, March 08, 2026
Anonymous said…
Liked the comment from the dedicated volunteer. I volunteer, but volunteers are far and few between. People do not want to work for a living, people do not want to volunteer.
Sunday, March 08, 2026
Anonymous said…
The last time I checked, every single church should be busy with service hours to their community every singe day. Sadly, most do nothing but gather for an hour on Sunday and pretend that that accomplishes something.
Sunday, March 08, 2026
Anonymous said…
They are terrible, and are never picked up after projects are completed. They tear through collection bags immediately.
Sunday, March 08, 2026
Anonymous said…
This may be getting off track, but hypocrisy runs rampant. There are many good people like yourselves that have pride- pride in their homes, pride in their families, pride in their work. There are a few that do not and their behaviors affect others. Plus, there is little or no enforcement of laws and ordinances here in Fairhope. Good people will start bailing out. Who will pick up the trash?



Monday, March 09, 2026
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