Alaskan Sea-Duction
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- Alaskan Sea-Duction
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- 1988 M/Y Camargue YachtFisher
We live in Oceanside, CA and the marina is not the big tourist draw, it is the beach. It is imperative that the beach be kept open and free from fecal pollution. The marina has 95 live-aboards which is a large percentage for such a small marina. Being a city run operation, the dock-keeping standards are low with rusty bicycles, barbeques, torn canvas flapping in the breeze, etc. I prefer to drive 45 miles south to San Diego than drive 6 miles to this marina.
"Thornton. After staging her business at the harbor for the past four years, she said she hardly sees anyone at the public pump out stations.
“For one 30 gallon tank of concentrated human waste dumped into that harbor, it’s like 10,000 people flush their toilet at home and it went into the water,” she said. "
Mandatory pumpouts made a huge and very visible difference in Boot Key Harbor (Marathon, FL), as well as many harbors on Long Island Sound, and even in Westport Harbor MA, which has a very swift ebb current, being a river, and is not a year around harbor. . The only proven way of accomplishing this that I know of is to have a pump out boat come on a scheduled basis and pump you out whther you are on board or not. Cost of which is included in the mooring fee.
But what does everyone think of the requirement (law) that you WILL put a dye tab in you head? I don't advocate dumping RAW waste within the 3nm zone, it just seems an over reach of government. Boats are the main polluters of a bay? Does the city or town dump sewage into the bay? What about those boaters that have gone and installed a marine sanitation system on their boat?
Here's the solution.
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No pesky holding tank to harm the environment. Come to think of it this may have been RT's transient neighbor.
Now that's funny but brown trout won't live in salt water.