GL: U.S. boats in Canadian waters

[Bob Craven]

Richardson Bay on the North side of San Francisco Bay is a "NO Discharge 
Zone".  However, if you/we had pumped out our holding tanks, and it had gone 
to the processing facility recently, it might well have contributed to this 
year's 50,000 ++++ gallon raw sewage leak.  Interestingly enough, these 
leaks always seem to flush out in a few days.  Boaters must have more potent 
......

Bob Craven
M/V Omega
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Bloomfield" <khtb at bellsouth.net>
To: "Bob DeGroot, DCH" <bob at saleshelp.com>
Cc: "'Great Loop List'" <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: GL: U.S. boats in Canadian waters


> 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
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