Saw one of these signs recently on State Highway 321 near Luce’s Bayou . The bayou eventually feeds into Lake Houston, but is barely a trickle where it crosses 321.
Apparently, we weren’t the only ones who wondered about the sign. Cassie Gregory, writing in Your Dayton News, reports that the signs were put up by the Houston-Galveston Area Council Water Resources Program as part of their effort to minimize pollution in both Lake Houston and Galveston Bay.
Her article isn’t perfect. She claimed. for example, that the Back the Bay website didn’t exist when it obviously does.
She did manage to get in touch with Todd Running, the H-GAC Water Resources program manager, and got this quote regarding environmental responsibility:
“In a city the size of Houston, the amount of dog feces that can be generated in one day is equivalent to (what would fill) approximately 54 dump trucks. “That alone (proper disposal) would greatly decrease the amount of bacteria running off into waterways.”
EXCUSE ME???
Now we’re supposed to pick up after our pets in our own back yard? We have two miniature dachshunds, and we religiously clean up after them when on the road whether we are in an RV park, a roadside rest area or any other public place – but at home? Ain’t gonna happen.
In the first place, even if we did, how would we dispose of their feces in what would be considered an environmentally acceptable way? We can’t burn it – there’s a long standing burning ban in effect. Adding it to compost is equivalent to leaving it where they left it, and if it goes in the garbage, it – along with a bunch of extra non-biodegradable plastic - would just head for a landfill. How is that going to help?
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