2 Years Ago Today

On 2-8-06 I discovered pipes from an exhibit at the Salisbury Zoo illegally draining into the river and contacted the MDE. The MDE came out to the Zoo and demanded they cut off any more raw sewage from this exhibit immediately.

I showed up a few days later and Jim Rapp opened the valve again draining raw sewage against the MDE's demands.

The MDE came back in and forced the Zoo to cap the pipe immediately. Jim Rapp & Ron Alessi claimed they didn't participate in running these pipes directly into the river but this was not true. This exhibit was built while Jim was the Director of the Zoo and in the end they were very much responsible for the illegal pipes.

Ultimately the City was forced into completely redoing these pipes directly into the City's Sewer System, costing the Taxpayers thousands of dollars.