GL: U.S. boats in Canadian waters

Stuart Rae stuart.rae at comcast.net
Sat Feb 21 13:07:35 EST 2009


Reply; Hey Bob the spill happened over 2 days and the total discharge was in
excess of 800,000 gallons of partially treated sewage! Wonder how many
holding tanks that is? It is inexcusable on the treatment plants part since
this was the same plant that discharged in excess of a million gallons of
sewage last year and they were fined heavily for it.

Stuart
Krogen Silhouette 42

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


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