GL: Great Lakes etc. toilet plumbing

[Keith]

Michael wrote:
"We are planning a trip this summer heading up the Hudson to the Erie canal,
Oswego to Lake Ontario and Thousand Islands, Rideau to the Ottawa R. 
Montrial,
Richelieu canal to Lake Champlain and back to the Hudson and home.

Can anyone give me the requirements in these areas for the 
discharge/storage
of the head. My system is currently set up as follows. Toilet  to a Y valve,
one side for direct discharge overboard the other to the holding  tank. The
holding tank has a macerator pump and line for direct discharge and a  line 
for
dockside pumpout. Can the direct overboard discharge lines from the  toilet
and the macerator pump be closed at the thruhulls and wired shut, or is a 
more
permanent set up required in these waters."

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I asked Peggie Hall about this, and she replied as I had remembered:
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Lake Champlain is mentioned. If you ask the locals, they will insist that 
ALL vessels are
required to comply. Since Champlain is not only an interstate waterway,
but also am international waterway, that's not true...Federal law
applies to transient vessels. But most people who make the Great Loop
don't want to risk the hassle of trying to convince a local water cop of
that, so they disconnect their overboard plumbing. I've never heard of
anyone who's done the Loop who's ever been inspected, so whether it
really is necessary has yet to be proven.

Peggie
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Personally, when I go through there, I'm going to stick to the Federal 
standards and NOT disconnect any hoses... I have a setup like the original 
poster, and the thought removing three hoses and re-installing them later is 
unbearable. I put them on, so I know how hard that job would be.
Oh, and those requirements are in:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/12feb20041500/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/julqtr/33cfr159.7.htm

Keith
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