Vito wrote:
"DSK" wrote
3- do you imagine there might be some Freudian issues of why some people
insist on their right to doo-doo in the water where other people are
sailing, swimming, etc etc.
So, to avoid using my lectrosan I hold it til I get to shore and use the
potty in town.
The whole point of using a Lectra/San is to be able to use it in an
anchorage...the federal water quality standard for swimming requires a
bacteria count of 200...the bacteria count in a L/S discharge is 10.
Where does it go? After treatment, it goes in the water where
other people are sailing, swimming, etc. - just like it would had I used the
'san. That's why the Cheasapeake is so, well, ****ty.
Actually, it's not the reason...Boats have so little do with it that if
everything else could be "fixed," the small amount of waste that boats
contribute would actually become beneficial. The real reasons are many
and complex, starting with overfishing and depleting--compounded by a
virus that also kills off a lot of 'em--the oyster and crab and other
shellfish population, which are nature's "sewage treatment plant"...then
there's what all the rivers dump into the Bay...and the runoff directly
from the shore. It didn't happen overnight...it won't be cleaned up
overnight, nor are there any simple solutions. But a good start would be
a moratorium on shellfishing for at least 5 years...the watermen would
howl, but if the gov't can pay millions of farmers not to grow certain
crops, it can pay a few hundred waterman not to shellfish till the
population reaches a level again sufficient to process a good portion of
the pollutants. FYI, the shellfish and other "garbage eaters" in just
2500 healthy acres of bottom is enough to completely cleanse the waste
from a population of 100,000. (Surprised the hell out of me to learn
that too!).
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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1