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H the K

wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:21:25 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

I know when I was there people said there was a layer of sludge on the
bottom of the bay from all the people who flush oil down the toilet
and from the street runoff of several major cities that use the bay
for a sewer.
Who the hell would flush oil down the toilet?

People too lazy to take it to a recycle place?

Some of the sludge also comes from freighters on their way to
Baltimore...there have been incidents of their crews flushing ballast in
the bilges.