(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. Neal® 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