Mark Weaver wrote:

"Larry" wrote in message
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Boats don't produce "sewage", a mixture of dangerous chemicals, heavy
metals, amazingly toxic biology bred by long trips in hot pipes
underground.

Boats produce the same thing as whales, bottlenosed dolphins, and a
billion other species that dump into the sea soup mix of recyclable
materials........unless you put it in a holding tank and TURN it into
sewage with chemical crap out of a bottle and store it for a month.
THEN, it's sewage!

Human waste is just as much food, on a much smaller scale, as whale
waste if you flush it directly overboard.




No, that's wrong. Dumping human (and animal) waste into the waters has
effects that fish and whale poop don't because human and domestic animal
waste contain bacteria which are dangerous to human health. This is why
beaches are closed when levels of E Coli and fecal coliform bacteria are too
high (which happens when sewage systems overflow).


E Coli and similar are natural, even though dangerous when too
concentrated. On the Chesapeake's Eastern shore, they were really
confused about high E.Coli counts in areas where there were no
significant human sources. The culprits wound up being the raccoons who
flourish in the face of virtually no predators.

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Jere Lull
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