GL: Sewage dumping in south Florida

[fred]

Tom,

Offshore dumping of sewage is one thing ... dumping it into a river is
even worse.  For example, my home port, on the Hackensack River in New Jersey
..... upstream is the city of Hackensack which has a connection between the
"sanitary sewers" and the storm water drains, and whenever it rains the two
flush together.  This causes raw untreated sewage to flow down the Hackensack
river, where it flows into the Meadowlands Wildlife Area.  When there is no
rain, there is no waterflow at all, and the sewage flushes back and forth with
the tide until its replaced by the next load of sewage next time it rains.
Bizarrely, the system was designed to do this.

This is actually not limited
to NJ, it goes on everywhere.

Luckily I'm moving in a few months to the
Champlain Canal, where the water is muddy but free of sewage.  Instead of
sewarge they have PCBs there a distance downstream from me, left over from
manufacturing back in the 1960's.

America The Beautiful!

Fred
Tug 44
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From: "tom"
<fourniercontracting at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:14 PM
To:
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Subject: GL: Sewage dumping in south Florida
I was born and raised in Miami and know when I was a kid this was going on
but this weekend my brother in law saw this article in the paper and I could
not believe that in this day and time this would be still going on to this
extent, and the government is wanting us to get a permit for our
boats???????????

Please go to this site and read this article, it is
unbelieveable to me!!!!!
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/480133.html

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