GL: U.S. boats in Canadian waters

[Ken Bloomfield]

 Bob,

Don't get too upset too early, it is not all that bad.  Nobody ever said
that you must throw away the parts and tools.  If you read the post that
mentioned those words, it was done as a question with a certain amount of
(perhaps justifiable) sarcasm, -- not as a statement quoting an official
rule. 

Also, while I am one of those who believes that this whole black-water
dumping thing is much ado about nothing, there are nonetheless rules.  I
have long argued that having a reasonable (in terms of complexity, size,
and cost) legal, sanitary way of dumping (i.e. make sure that all the
dangerous bacteria are dead) would make a lot more sense and be more
likely to achieve a high degree of compliance.    However, to just take
the attitude that the rules are too onerous and therefor I will not go
there would (and increasingly will) limit the cruising grounds you can
enjoy.  For sure, it would eliminate the potential of the Great Loop, and
not just because of Canada.

If you simply Google the words "no discharge", you will see that most
states have no discharge zones.  The requirements vary from "lockout" to
"disconnect", but are increasingly found everywhere that the water is
considered sensitive.

So, like it or lump it, we have to do it.  As has been noted by others,
the process is not really that hard and the PVC quick-disconnects work
very well.  I use them even on my lawn sprinkling system that pumps water
from Tellico Lake here in TN.  I need to remover a chunk of the system
every winter to get the water out of the pipe with the foot-valve in the
lake, and they work very well and are easy to do.  They hand tighten,,
and are zero-clearance (i.e. you don't have to try to pull the two pieces
of remaining pipe apart to create clearance to remove the section).  Best
of all, as was pointed out, they are not very expensive.

Ken Bloomfield
Tellico Lady, MT-50
Tellico Lake, TN

Bob DeGroot, DCH wrote:

  Throw away the parts? Do they have any idea how difficult it is to get
  parts, i What are they thinking?

STATES WITH ZERO DISCHARGE AREAS:

California

Maryland

New Hampshire

South Carolina/
Georgia

California/
Nevada

Massachusetts

New Jersey

Texas

Connecticut

Michigan

New Mexico

Utah/Arizona

Florida

Minnesota

New York

Vermont

Kentucky/Tennessee

Minnesota/Wisconsin

Rhode Island

Virginia

Maine

Missouri

South Carolina/
North Carolina/
Georgia

Wisconsin