Here's What Started Salisbury News 3 Years Ago

Human Feces piled high with no liner underneath steaming in the sun.

Pontoon Boat sits in a human feces sludge pit the size of a football field and 20" deep.

New equipment sits outside the pit for overflow to pump water off the top but drained into the river.

Sandbags line the back of the illegal sludge pit as it was full to the top and regularly overflowed down a hill and directly into the Wicomico River.

Another clear sign of evidence just how high the sludge filled the 20' deep illegal sludge pit.

Clear signs of vehicles using/dumping into the illegal pit daily.

This photo only shows about 1/2 the size of the entire illegal sludge pit.

This photo shows the back wall of the illegal sludge pit where illegal waste would overflow and continue downhill, ultimately finding its way directly to the Wicomico River.

Three years ago I had been informed that there was numerous illegal activities going on at the Salisbury Waste Water Treatment Plant. I drove to the facility in my pickup truck and pulled inside the facility. I asked for directions to the Main Office and ultimately parked my truck right in front of their front door. I got out and simply started walking the grounds. I had been told there was an illegal sludge pit filled with human waste. I had also been told that there was an area in which the MDE was completely unaware of back in the woods and there was a dirt road heading back there.

It took me a while to find it but to my unbelievable surprise, there it was! The claim was that every time they experienced heavy rainfall, the Plant would overflow. They were allegedly draining their system before a heavy rain and dumping it into this pit. Nevertheless, there was a liner that ultimately only had a guarantee for 30 days, although the City/Mayor claimed it had a guarantee for many years, she was wrong.

I took all these pictures and hundreds more and contacted the MDE. They came to my home and started looking at the photos and they couldn't believe their own eyes. They immediately pulled together a team and had me standing by so I could instruct them just where to go. By the end of the day the MDE was writing one station after the other for all sorts of illegal activity. The Mayor claimed she'd take full responsibility and ultimately the City was fines $25,000.00 for what they had done. It could have been at least $250,000.00 but I worked with the MDE asking them NOT to punish the Taxpayers. It was more important that they forced the City to clean up this mess and make sure it never happened again.

They even had wells they had illegally drilled and were pumping millions of gallons of untreated water into a man made stream that flowed directly into the River as well. I'll never forget just how pissed off the Mayor was about my being there and taking all these pictures. She and John Jacobs came up with a new plan to make sure I wouldn't return. They put blue stickers on every white hard hat and demanded every employee call the Police and have me arrested or anyone else who didn't have a hard hat on with the blue sticker.

When I said I was going back to take more pictures in a plane, the Mayor allegedly contacted the Feds and allegedly tried to create a No Fly Zone over the WWTP. ROTFLMAO, I did it anyway. If I have the time I'll post those photos from above as well.

Ever since I came onto the scene, Mayor Barrie Tilghman and Chief Webster have done everything possible to have me arrested and or my Blog shut down. Who ever said you can't fight City Hall? Are you listening Hebron? Are you listening Somerset County?