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Dave5041
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Initially Posted - 04/14/2011 : 18:27:11

Did anyone else log in to the webinar presentation RE: gray water, nuisance species, and other water contaminants and the the future development "best practice" guidelines this evening? It should have, but probably won't, allay some fears in the knee-jerk reaction community. It sounded reasonable and suggested that the process will take until about 2015 to implement. I highly recommend longing in to one of the next two Information and schedule is available athttp://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/vessel/CBA/participate.cfm

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle

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redviking
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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 06:41:51

No, sorry I missed it though... Thanks for putting this on my radar.

Bottom line - eventually there will be no liveaboards nor cruisers. If I carry 90 gallons of fresh water, ostensibly I will need a grey water holding tank that big. Where is that going to go?

Funny how the discharges from a small section of society - sailors and their motorboat cousins - outweighs the illegal outfall pipes, raw sewage from treatment plants discharging after a storm, and all of the parking lot pollutants and fertilizer pollutants that wind up in drains that lead directly to bodies of water are just not as important as the dreaded sailor who is washing his dishes!

Someday, we just will not be able to do this...

sten

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 04/15/2011 : 17:47:10

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">If I carry 90 gallons of fresh water, ostensibly I will need a grey water holding tank that big. Where is that going to go?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
The benefit of the webinars is that you will find that that, along a lot of other misinformation, is not true. The basis for the Clean Boating Act is that the EPA was sued and blocked from excluding recreational use boats from the commercial boat/ship requirements of the Clean Water Act. They must now formulate the rules and are looking for as much input as they can get with the intent of establishing "best practice" guidelines and recommendation. The EPA is developing video streams of the previous webinars, but they aren't live on their website yet.

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