It looks harmless. Just a few blades of grass, right? But when it rains, those clippings carry much more than water into the environment. Fertilizer, pesticides, weed killers… All of it goes straight from the storm drains into creeks, streams, and lakes, poisoning the water and killing aquatic life. Bag your clippings and you’ll keep your chemicals out of the water environment.
As the clown says, leaves DON’T float down here; they clog. When leaves pile up in storm drains, they don’t just disappear. They block flow and back everything up. That’s how you get flooded yards and streets that look like rivers. Want to Avoid the horror? Mulch or compost your leaves or bag them for pickup. Just don’t put ‘em down there.
You drop it, it vanishes. But it doesn’t go away. Plastic bottles, aluminum cans, paper bags—they end up in the storm drains. Down there, they pile up and block the flow. And when the rain comes, the water has nowhere to go. Flooded streets and trashed creeks are more than nightmares. Put trash in its place, because what you toss today could come back to haunt you tomorrow.
Doggie makes doo-doo and what do you do? Poop left on the ground becomes a toxic cocktail when it rains, polluting everything in its path as rain carries bacteria through the storm sewers to creeks, streams and lakes. Pick up your poop and put in the trash. If you think leaving it there or tossing it into a drain is okay, you’re living in a fantasy scarier than any clown.
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