...................so you and your guests fill your holding tank while your offshore a few miles for a nice long day trip and you decide to have it pumped out when you get back to the marina. The marina hardly collects it or hold it in a septic tank so on it goes to the closest lift station to mingle with the rest of the raw water influent flowing to the waste water treatment plant. But the municipal plant or POTW is now hydraulically or organically overloaded and the treatment somewhat bypassed before its discharged into the receiving stream. You know that river down the street or the one that runs through your city. The plant again violates its NPDES effluent discharge standards, especially for fecal coliform and gets a warning or maybe a small fine. It is still profitable to pollute. In the meantime our rivers are contaminated and plants over burdened with not enough capacity. Maybe the Admiral was just making comparisons........but remember it was in the mid-80's and MSD regs were much more relaxed. Greater assimilation in the sea but laws must be obeyed.
As for the "nonpoint source" discharges of other pollutants (pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc, etc, etc running away with the stormwater runoff?
Well, tha'ts another story........................
Bob
As for the "nonpoint source" discharges of other pollutants (pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc, etc, etc running away with the stormwater runoff?
Well, tha'ts another story........................
Bob
