GL: Water cops and Lectrasans

[Bob McLeran]

A few weeks back there as some discussion on this list about water cops 
stopping boats and checking to ensure that sewage wasn't being 
discharged overboard. I asked how they would react to a system using a 
Lectrasan (which certainly can pump directly overboard without 
treatment) and whether it would process the dye the water cops were using.

Yesterday we got our answer. While cruising on the ICW through New 
Smyrna Beach, Florida, we were hailed by two water sheriffs, told to 
continue our course and speed, and one swung aboard from their skiff. He 
identified himself and that he was going to inspect our sanitation 
system. He then asked how many toilets (I'm not sure he called them 
heads) we had aboard, and I told him. He then asked what would happen if 
he dropped some dye into the heads and flushed the toilets. I replied 
that the dye would go through a Lectrasan for each head, and then be 
pumped overboard. He checked with his partner on the skiff, and then 
held up his thumb, and said (in effect) that we were using a system that 
was better than the city, and thanked us for our time. He hopped off 
Sanderling, then they departed.

We had seen them stopping a sail boat just before they stopped 
Sanderling, but a 50+ foot cruiser went by without being stopped.

Hope all water cops are as well-versed in the operation of Lectrasan!

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Bob McLeran and Judy Young                  Manatee Cove Marina
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