A red herring. The principal contributors are sea birds and agricultural
run off.

In THEORY that may be true assuming that the sewage treatment plant is
working up to the standard 200 E-coli colonies/liter. But a single
malfunction, as has happened on more than one occasion, can contribute as
much as several million boaters. Even a heavy rain can drive most treatment
plants over the limit by 1,000 times or more.

Another reason why I am in favor of Type I MSDs that discharge 1/5 the
colony count/liter as the best municipal waste plants.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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"Roger Long" wrote in message
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This from our state DEP pump out program:

"The untreated sewage from two people on one boat can contribute the same
amount of bacteria to a harbor as the treated discharge from a town of
10,000 people."

Let's see, about 70,000 people in Portland. The whole city's bacterial
output (after treatment) could be duplicated by 14 people?!

--

Roger Long