drb1025
Guru
In case you haven’t seen this.
https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Puget-Sound/No-discharge-zone#recreation
https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Puget-Sound/No-discharge-zone#recreation
Acceptable methods of securing the device include:
Closing the seacock and removing the handle;
Padlocking the seacock in the closed position;
Using a non-releasable wire-tie to hold the seacock in the closed position; or
Locking the door to the space enclosing the toilets with a padlock...
Will they require the whales, seals and other wildlife to use an 'approved sanitary device'?
Why should they? Their emissions have been part of the ecosystem for millions of years. As has their food.
As I read it, it sounds like I may have to disable/lock both the valve going from the holding tank to the macerator as well as the valve that is at the thruhull discharge?
We knew it was coming. Fortunately, the change only effects a relatively small number of recreational boats in Puget Sound. Unfortunately, it is a big hit to those boat owners. They invested a fair amount of money for a treatment system, but now they can’t use it in WA waters. For some of them it will be expensive to modify the boat to comply with the NDZ...
So I guess the key switch that controls my overboard pump is not sufficient to comply, even though it prevents discharge by way of a keyed lock, just like a lock on a thruhul valve?
..Fortunately it's ONLY the Sound, Lake Union and Lake Washington that are now an NDZ, not all WA waters. Treatment devices are still legal in Strait and the San Juans...
Further bad news... all holding tanks will require a wifi connection and dedicated facebook account for data collection. I would provide the link but I know Nobridge Analytica has already penetrated this site. :>0
Fortunately, the change only effects a relatively small number of recreational boats in Puget Sound. Unfortunately, it is a big hit to those boat owners. They invested a fair amount of money for a treatment system, but now they can’t use it in WA waters. For some of them it will be expensive to modify the boat to comply with the NDZ.
Fortunately it's ONLY the Sound, Lake Union and Lake Washington that are now an NDZ, not all WA waters. Treatment devices are still legal in Strait and the San Juans. However, the total number of boats nationwide that have 'em has never exceeded 5% of boats with toilets.
Btw...just discovered that WA hasn't even been added to the EPA list of NDZs yet.
Peggie
This is really no news. As stated earlier recreational boats have been using holding tanks and pump outs for years. There are no water cops up here. The coast guard/home land security is the only authority that can board your boat and they have no budget for state law enforcement.
Sure looks that way to me as well. North to the CN border it says. That means the SJ's. I like the idea of just putting the valve in the closed position and taking off the handle. Simple.Unfortunately, I think the San Juans ARE included. Verbatum from the WA law:
All the marine waters of Washington state inward from the line between New Dungeness Lighthouse (N 48°10'54.454", 123°06'37.004" W) and the Discovery Island Lighthouse (N 48°25'26.456", 123°13'29.554" W) to the Canadian border (intersecting at: N 48°20'05.782", 123°11'58.636" W), and fresh waters of Lake Washington, Lake Union, and connecting waters between and to Puget Sound.
That's everything until you cross the line out into the Strait of JDF.
Just having a little fun. And I just renewed my Sierra Club membership - member since 1973