Airstream345
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Wondering ... what are the "poop" policies of the Canadian government?
I have the impression, correct me if I'm wrong, that Canadian pollution requirements (not just boats but industrial also) are less restrictive than the USA.
From Seattle PI:
Victoria and neighboring cities have finally approved a regional sewage treatment plant, after 25 years of conflict over British Columbia's touristy capital dumping raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Capital Regional District, long a center of resistance to treatment, voted Wednesday for a $765 million (Canadian) plant to be built at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt, just west of Victoria. It is slated to be complete by 2020.
The municipalities had to act or faced loss of Canadian government funding. "I'm feeling very relieved the region will get the project it deserves," Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, who chairs the CRD's sewage committee, told the Times Colonist.
The relief extends across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Such American cities as Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend were required to install secondary sewage treatment in the 1970s.
The Victoria area continued to dump 34 million gallons of raw sewage into the Strait each day. Officials were adamant with their basic line of defense: The solution to pollution is dilution. The Strait of Juan de Fuca was depicted as a giant toilet that would flush away any environmental damage.
Our boat is one of those impacted by this change. The PO had a SanX installed in the bow as a workaround to the failing SS holding tank under the head sole (replacement would require significant joinery removal/refit).
We had already planned to remove the old tank (cutting it out) and replacing the SanX with a bow tank but this NDZ implementation accelerates that project.