On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:08:41 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:03:46 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:43:08 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:

Justan Olphart wrote:
On 12/11/2015 10:57 PM, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
Justan Olphart
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"Individually, you two are pretty dumb. Teamed up you are incredibly so."


If I was you Stinky, I'd be more worried about a senile John
accidentally flushing his bowl and sending you on a journey to the sea.


Wow! That was--insane! It's one fr the Mrs. White file. Poor lady
probably has no idea what keys dumb Don is punching on his Playbook!

Flushing toilets into the harbour is only done in Halifax NS. A
disgusting practice that was abandoned in civilized shoreside cities.


It is a Canada thing. Victoria also dumps untreated sewage in to the sea.

Once you get over the yuck factor, poop is very biodegradable and
there is no long term damage that you wouldn't have from treated
sewage (mostly nutrients). In the short term it can be a very bad
thing locally tho (many diseases come from that).
If they want to turn their harbor into a septic tank, it doesn't
bother me much. I am not swimming there anyway. The water is too cold
;-)

In terms of Halifax Harbor, you're probably right. But the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
would probably argue with that first sentence as far as the health of the bay goes.

From what I have read, the problems with the bay are related to
nutrients and they survive the treatment process. They do get a lot of
E-coli but it is mostly agricultural, particularly from Frank Purdue
et al.
There is also a lot of "hard" pollution coming down the Susquehanna
but that is from as far away as central New York.