T&T: Potti

[Keith]

Nope. Holding tank contents are actually pretty highly diluted, between pee 
and flush water, vs. a pure bird dropping.

This whole discussion brings up the insanity of "no discharge" zones, which 
only prohibit using Lectra-sans and other treatment systems. Why in the 
world would anyone prohibit a system that treats a boat's sewage better than 
the land based units? It solves so many problems such as capacity, holding 
tank smell, etc.

I don't think anybody really just wants to dump raw sewage for the hell of 
it, but there are times you have to, sorry. With Lectrasans, you'd never 
have to do so, and I think most boaters who actually cruise and run into 
these situations would love to have a Lectrasan on board, but with an 
ever-increasing number of "no discharge" (should be called No Treatment) 
zones, they're less useful.

And a trip outside the three mile limit isn't practical for a large number 
of boaters who live on bays, etc. That trip for me would be maybe 8 hours 
round trip and use about 32 gallons of diesel at nearly $4.00 a gallon. An 
expensive pumpout.


Keith
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Wilkins" <cruiser6003 at yahoo.com>
>
> I think there is a huge difference between the droppings of a canadian 
> goose
> (or even a whole flock) and a very concentrated illegal discharge of a 
> holding
> tank. I agree it is way harder than it should be to find/use a pumpout but 
> it
> is also very easy to legally pumpout when outside the 3 mile limit...or 9 
> as
> it is here in the FL gulf. Getting out side the 3 mile limit takes 
> what..1/2
> hour past the demarcation line.