[alberg30] Lectrasan MSD

[Robert E Johns]

From: Robert E Johns <bobjns at nais.com>

>From: RABBIT649 at aol.com
>
>Dear George,
>    I have a RARITAN Lectrasan somebody gave me that I havn't installed yet.
>It zaps the waste with about 50 amps for three minutes and is supposed to
>convert it to be legal for discharge in some places. Do you know where and
>where not? I forgot what the guy told me.
>Paul,
>Ashwagh #23

Paul,

We installed a Lectrasan after we bought Wind Call in 1976. It involved
rebuilding the head area including moving the panel inboard an inch or two
and using two doors instead of three. We got rid of it a few years ago when
more and more places we cruise became no discharge areas. We installed a 9
gallon holding tank in the space where the Lectrasan was, again having to
rebuild the head. The 9 gallon size is too small, but I didn't want to
install a holding tank under the forward berths or use a flexible tank. We
end up causing more pollution than we ever did with the Lectrasan because
many areas don't have pumpout stations and when we dump the tank, it is
raw, though macerated, sewage. We have stopped the long cruises because of
medical problems, but our cruising area was from Long Island Sound north.
The most prominent place to go to no discharge is Block Island, and they
really do enforce it, but more and more smaller places have gone no
discharge and it is obvious the the handwriting is on the wall. There is no
reasonable answer.

Regards,
	Bob Johns, Wind Call, #397



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