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"Peggie Hall" wrote in message ...
(I know I'm gonna regret this...but I'm gonna assume that for once Neal is asking a serious question and answer it)
Capt. NealŪ wrote:
It seems strange to me that Peggie Hall has made a life out of sewage.
But I haven't made a life out of sewage...I've made a career of solving the problems--especially odor problems--that holding tanks
and sanitation plumbing create for many boat owners. That has required me to learn a bit about the nature of the stuff...but if
you'd been paying any attention at all, you'd know that I rarely discuss sewage per se, but only what's legal and what's not, how
various marine sanitation equipment and systems work, and how to install, operate, repair, and maintain it to cure--better yet,
prevent--problems with it.
Peggie, can you enlighten the group as to what motivated your initial foray into sewage?
The need to solve a horrible odor problem on the first boat I ever owned that had a holding tank. I did solve it...other people
who had the same problem wanted to know how I did it...and a business was born--at first just a small "business on the side" that
grew into a full blown career. I'd already spent the better part of 20 years in advertising...some people don't think that marine
sanitation was that much of a career leap. 
In my opinion, all one needs to know about yacht sanitation systems is two words - cedar bucket!
'Tain't legal, Neal. Federal law prohibits the discharge of raw sewage ("human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other
receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes") in ALL US waters...and defines "discharge" as "includes, but is not
limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping." That makes "bucket and chuck it" illegal
anywhere but in open sea at least 3 miles from the nearest point on the whole US coastline.
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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
Ha ha ha! Good reply ;-)
CN
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