On Mar 24, 5:48�am, Gene Kearns
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Glad they nabbed those characters.

Far too much water pollution, etc, gets blamed on recreational
boaters. We look like the bad guys, in the public's eye, because there
are so many of us. One commercial boat dumping 1000 gallons of waste
oil in a single incident has probably put more waste oil in the water
than a 2000 private boats would in a decade.

I've got a phone conference scheduled on Monday with a woman from the
City of Seattle, Department of Public Utilities.
It isn't very well known, but the floating portion of our January Boat
Show was almost shut down before it started. Some zealous
environmentalist phoned the city to complain that there were soap suds
on the surface of the water the day before the show opened; and of
course there were because everybody was washing their inventory.
Seattle claims there's a state law that prohibits boat washing- yet on
the official Washington State web site there's a document titled "10
Things You Can Do to Reduce Water Pollution" and one of the
suggestions is to wash your boat with "low phosphate soap or laundry
detergent." I hope to get to the bottom of the discrepancy.

So it's good news that they slapped the irons on these guys
deliberately fouling the waters. May help take some of the heat off
general recreational boaters who generally make a decent effort to
comply with the laws and minimize pollution.