No Discharge Zone

[supersailor]

Hi,

Attached is a link to the Washington State department of Ecology web site showing the information on the proposed No Discharge Zone. It affects all of us. I know it is a bad joke as long as Victoria and the Sannich Peninsula are dumping seven million gallons a day of raw sewage but we have to live with it non the less.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/nonpoint/CleanBoating/nodischargezone.html

Why does this D--- program keep screwing up the links. When I edit, the link is correct. On the site, it removes a chunk of the link. Is there any way to make this work or do we just swear at the site?

 

[Loren Beach]

Links, not sausage

Link is working fine.

That said, I find that the edit function does seem to affect the link.

Loren

 

[hodo]

I wonder how they get by with all the deep water outfalls from around the sound. These are untreated sewage from the cities that cant handle the extra water when it rains. I kinda remember the number was 60 +.
Harold

 

[supersailor]

That's Government Agency vs Government Agency. Boats are easy, visible, targets to pick on. Changing this other stuff is expensive. Port Angeles dumped 28,000,000 gallons of untreated runoff in the last rain because they stupidly ran their sewage and storm runoff in the same pipe. Instead of starting to fix the problem by beginning to separate the systems, they spent millions buying an old tank and are bringing in piping to use the tank as a holding tank until the treatment plant can handle it so they are treating waste and runoff. A week of rain and back it goes into the Harbor. Good long range planning. I don't think so, but the EPA accepts the solution. Using the same reasoning, you should be able to pump overboard if your holding tank is full before you reach port.

 

[supersailor]

Yup! The sheep get more submissive every year!

 

[mkollerjr]

Seems like they have been pushing this for a while now, and I'm sure eventually it will pass. We were almost going to get an lectrasan sanitary system last year when replacing our holding tank, until we heard about this coming down the road and decided against it. I just have a hard time believing recreational boats are the problem with water quality.

Mark

 

[Afrakes]

Appropriate?

I believe that this forum is a political no discharge zone. Would appreciate you moving such discussions involving political commentary to an appropriate political forum. Thanks.

 

[Loren Beach]

I believe that this forum is a political no discharge zone. Would appreciate you moving such discussions involving political commentary to an appropriate political forum. Thanks.

You're right, Al.
Probably best to just let it all go.... depending on which way your Y-Valve is set!

Back to Ericson talk!!


Loren

 

[Christian Williams]

Hear hear.