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Old 02-22-2013, 12:14 PM   #5
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The solution to pollution is dilution.

As long as the amount of pollution is small or/and the medium the pollution is diluted in is huge the above applies.

But there's Huge numbers of people living and polluting in Puget Sound.

I think the stats indicate that whales and cruise ships pollute the waters of SE Alaska much more than people.

So everything is relative.

Some boaters would hang it over the side in NY harbor and I spoze a Sierra Club type wouldn't pee in the ocean out of sight of land but if the waters of Puget Sound are polluted we all need to share the responsibility.

Chuck have you considered that shore side discharges may be WAY too "dirty" and that that is being addressed as well so the end result is acceptable discharges from all sources? There may be or probably is a wide variety of discharges into the Sound and the environmental types and/or agencies are doing their best to have human activity not destroy the Sound as we know it.

I don't know enough to make calls on this Chuck but the actions by the State of Washington Dept of Ecology may be entirely responsible and reasonable.
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