SUP on the WICOMICO river today https://t.co/zkrawR5jRn— Salisbury Police (@SalisburyPD) April 27, 2017
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Wow. I can't fault Day for trying, but THAT river? Not me in my lifetime!
I can't even imagine that this company will be successful, unless (drum roll please), the city is subsidizing? Hmmmm....
Why is the River Black? LOL
Not a great example to not be wearing life jackets.
Do they realize how dirty the river is ?
If you go, get a cholera shot first!
Another fake Day photo op. No way I would be near that water, beyond nasty 😨💀
Better get that expensive Fireboat out and start skimming for floaters! One of the most polluted rivers in the State of Maryland.
They had better get checked for coccidiosis after being so close to the turd swamp....nasty.
What is SUP?
Is it a foreign language word?
They live streamed this nonsense on facebook. Why no life jackets? Where's the NRP when you need them?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What is SUP?
Is it a foreign language word?
April 27, 2017 at 7:13 PM
only if you live under a rock
You backwoods people are very entertaining. SUP a foreign word. Really???
Just don't drink it or get wet with open wounds.
Anonymous said...
Wow. I can't fault Day for trying, but THAT river? Not me in my lifetime!
I can't even imagine that this company will be successful, unless (drum roll please), the city is subsidizing? Hmmmm....
April 27, 2017 at 12:22 PM
I was thinking the same thing about the subsidy!
Anonymous said...
Not a great example to not be wearing life jackets.
April 27, 2017 at 1:03 PM
Exactly. This shows you how stupid Jake Day is!
Who was the guy that was the moderator? His voice sounded familiar?
Anonymous said...
Another fake Day photo op. No way I would be near that water, beyond nasty 😨💀
April 27, 2017 at 3:02 PM
He learned from the best, Jim Liarton!
Tests show how filthy the Wicomico River is - Delmarva Now
Jeremy Cox Published 5:06 p.m. ET April 6, 2017
A recent report from the Wicomico Environmental Trust shows poor water quality due to above-normal rainfall. Produced by Ralph Musthaler
The Wicomico River is mired in filth — levels of fecal bacteria are the highest ever recorded, clear water is difficult to find and algae-feeding phosphorus is making a stubborn comeback.
As far as experts can tell, much of the river's woes last year were tied to heavier-than-normal rainfall, which washed large amounts of nutrients, animal waste and other pollutants off the land. Still, the results, they say, come as another sign that the river's ills run deep — and will likely take years to reverse at the current pace of cleanup.
At some locations in the upper reaches of the river and in the manmade ponds around its periphery, levels of fecal bacteria reached up to 14,000 per milliliter, according to the report. The swimming threshold is 104.
For the first time in the report's history, all eight sites tested for fecal enterococci, a type of bacteria found in animals' guts, ranking "very poor" for the metric. Coming into contact with contaminated water can cause illnesses ranging from skin infections to diarrhea.
“It’s clearly not safe for swimming when there’s a heavy rain," Stribling said. "We knew that. But this just brings it home.”
No one knows exactly where all that poop is coming from. It's likely some combination of waste from wildfowl and birds as well as from failing septic tanks and fertilizer, Stribling said.
Overall, most of the river's health indicators declined or stayed about the same in 2016, the groups reported. In all cases, the average severity of the contamination remained in the "moderately impaired" range.
Phosphorus concentrations grew in all four segments of the watershed — the ponds, the upper Wicomico, the lower Wicomico and Wicomico Creek. But at none of the sites did the level surpass the high threshold.
The 2016 results are similar in many ways to the preceding year, another rain-soaked testing season. But they represent a step back from 2014, when relatively dry weather led to a trickle of pollution and a surge of hope that cleanup efforts were beginning to make their mark.
Salisbury Mayor Jake Day, who was at the groups' press conference, said much of the river's current troubles can be attributed to decades of civic indifference.
Only in the past couple decades have volunteers and government officials turned their attention toward treating the river as something other than a sewer. (The Wicomico Environmental Trust formed in 1988.)
Day ticked off a list of efforts underway to improve the river's health:
The creation of a stormwater utility fee two years ago that raises about $600,000 a year, money dedicated toward modernizing the city's aging storm sewer network.
The $70 million overhaul of the city's wastewater treatment plant, which, when finished this December, is expected to reduce the amount of nitrogen it discharges into the river by 114 tons a year.
A budding partnership with Wicomico County to tie in certain septic users into the city's sewer system.
The mayor announced Thursday that his budget proposal to the City Council for next year includes $7,500 for the city to fully fund the laboratory tests used in the Wicomico water report.
The two environmental groups highlighted several steps that residents can take to reduce river pollution. Those include abstaining from pouring questionable materials down drains, picking up pet waste, watering gardens and lawns sparingly, using rain barrels and never applying fertilizer within 30 feet of a waterway.
That water is NASTY and Jake Day looks like he is at home floating around on Poop River!
Look at the video again and look at all that crud and those turds floating on the surface of that water. That is freaking GGGRRROOOSSSSS!!
Has anyone noticed how jacked up Jake Day's teeth are??
Anonymous said...
What is SUP?
Is it a foreign language word?
April 27, 2017 at 7:13 PM
No, it's Ghettospeak. Yo SUP man, SUP!
That report says the Wicomico River is the filthiest it has ever been and Jake Day begged this Dummy to come to Salisbury with his paddle boards and Jake wants the citizens to get into that nasty filthy water?? This shows you what Jake Day thinks of the people of Salisbury.
John Tull do you know how STUPID you look!! You clumsy, un-athletic moron!
A page right out of Jim Liarton's playbook. Get all the Department Heads to attend your press conferences to make it look like someone likes you and look like a small crowd is there!
Look at that guy's t-shirt that Jake Day is wearing. He better hope that the Washington Capital's doesn't sue him. Same lettering.
I just looked at the video on this thing and Jake Day says the Marina is going to have 55 apartments in a 5 story apartment building.
That's just great, more low income rental housing taking up property on the river.
Check this out. Jake Day is worse than Jim Ireton. Jake Day is actually giving waterfront property away for NOTHING!
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Eventually, the business will move to the city boathouse once it is built by Salisbury Development LLC, the developer for the new Marina Landing project.
Last year, the City Council approved a deal with the Salisbury Development Group for two waterfront parcels at the marina. The developer will purchase one of the parcels for $1 and will pay $1 per year on a 50-year lease for the second.
For those condemning the cleanliness of the Wicomico. Are you certain about the nastiness. I'm just wondering, because the last failed so called leader ran for office to clean up the waters. Are you saying he didn't fulfill his promise? Say it ain't sooo.
Wicomico River Health" Report shows water quality to be worse than the year prior
Salisbury, Md. - The Wicomico Environmental Trust and Wicomico Creekwatchers released their 2016 "Wicomico River Health" Report on April 6, 2017.
The health report shows their numbers were worse than last year.
This report monitors 22 sites throughout the river system, as it looks at different levels such as nitrogen, phosphorous, chlorophyll, as well as water clarity.
A major reason for these results are due to the high amounts of rainfall received this past year.
We are told out of all the measurements, the biggest concern is the phosphorus levels because they were worse this past year.
It indicates they have a lot of storm water and that storm water problem is a direct way, that phosphorus reaches the water way.
And since summer is around the corner, many may take a dip in the river, but we are told to not go in if it has rained in the past 48 hours.
We are told they are hoping to make improvements.
I see John Tull is on one of those paddle boards. Can you even imagine Pork Chop Hoppes on one of those things. They would need the $1 Million dollar fire boat and a crane to rescue him out of that sewer pit.
"The $70 million overhaul of the city's wastewater treatment plant, which, when finished this December"
Wait a minute!! Didn't the City of Salisbury just pay $80 Million dollars for the wastewater treatment plant?? So that is $150 Million dollars wasted on that sewage treatment plant and it's still not done? I think they paid another $40 Million dollars after the $80 Million dollars. Can you confirm that Joe? That started under Barrie Tilghman's watch and followed though with Jim Ireton and now Jake Day. Wasn't the attorney that screwed this up Paul Wilbur who is now Bob Culver's attorney with Wicomico County?
New Salisbury mayor to be sworn in Monday
Apr 20, 2009
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Salisbury is getting a new mayor.
Wicomico County's clerk of the circuit court is scheduled to swear Jim Ireton on Monday evening.
Ireton says he's been working like a mayor since election night, listening to residents' concerns and suggestions. He says he's trying to make good on campaign promises to make Salisbury safer and clean up the Wicomico River.
"Jim Ireton ran on a platform for Mayor of Salisbury by stating he would clean the Wicomico River so you can swim in it within 10 years."
This was 8 years ago^^ and the Wicomico River is Worse than it has ever been. Come on Jim Liarton didn't you promise to clean the river in 10 years?? Well it's been nearly 10 years and you have your new Boi Mare floating around turds on a paddle board pretending not to see the poop at his feet.
You people on the City Council are DISGUSTING!!
that report blames it on chicken farmers and "failing septic tanks", not the hundreds of millions of crap by the Salisbury water treatment plant. insane
I wasn't worried about running aground , I was worried about running a rubber or condom.
Aww, SPD took down the video. LOL
PERDUE is by far the worst polluter of wicomico river. The wicomico was truly killed by a creosote lumber company back in the 70's dumping their waste along with a fertilizer company where Jake day's section 8 housing is on Fitzwater. The place is an absolute cesspool
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