On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:13:55 -0700, wrote:


You're describing practices, (such as sandblasting into the bay), that
have been out of practice for a long time. If your mom is 85, you're
probably retired by now. Get out to a local boatyard and see how times
have changed since you last dumped everything into the water and figured
that was probably "good enough."

I'm not so sure, Chuck. Pollution issues are often a matter of state
enforcement. You live in a relatively "green" state. Louisiana is not.

http://www.scorecard.org/ranking/ran...ter+relea ses

In fact, it was as recently as 1999, that a Federal Judge stepped in and
mandated the EPA set pollution limits as Louisiana had refused to act.

http://www.earthjustice.org/news/display.html?ID=130