On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:56:35 -0500, Harryk
wrote:

On 1/3/11 5:48 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:16:40 -0800, "Califbill"
wrote:

I break the law on my skiff. Pee in a jug and pour overboard. Illegal to
pour overboard, but legal to pee directly overboard. Wasn't it in Boston
where the EPA said they could not dump the snow from the street cleanup in
to the harbor. Couple years ago. But legal to let melt and run off in to
the harbor. Common sense is not so common. Especially in government.

Especially in the EPA - too much education, not enough intelligence -
but very good at preserving their jobs.


There probably are good regulations against dumping snow in harbors and
rivers, and for good reasons. As an aside, the winter I lived in the
Albany, N.Y., area, we had a lot of snow. The plow-equipped dump trucks
pushed the snow down the main street in Albany, a street that ended at
the Hudson River. One overzealous driver pushed his mountain of plowed
snow right into the river (actually, a lot of drivers did that), but
apparently forgot where he was on the space-time continuum. Yup. The
snow, the plow, the truck and the driver...right into the Hudson. The
driver was rescued.

With all due respect, the people of Albany know very little about snow
and ice. I grew up near the south shore of Lake Ontario in Upstate
NY in a town that gets between 200 and 300 inches of show a year.

Typical winter Lake Ontario shore scenery:

http://www.lakeshoreimages.com/images12/lakeice2a.jpg

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/68287/68287,1153348436,28/stock-photo-a-wave-breaks-the-ice-along-the-coast-of-lake-ontario-near-lake-ontario-1568690.jpg

http://celebratecanada.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ice-piles-on-lake-ontario.jpg?w=800&h=531

Trucks pushed snow and ice into the river and lake all the time, and
the remainder eventually melted and ended up there anyway.