[alberg30] Lectrasan MSD

[RABBIT649 at aol.com]

From: RABBIT649 at aol.com

Thank you, Gordon. A very sensible and balanced contribution. We must make an 
effort to learn and disseminate fact-based information about how Nature 
purifies itself and its capacity for doing so. It is the only way to bring 
the "politically corrrect", who are operating in a miasma of ignorance and 
rear, to their senses.
Paul Cicchetti
Ashwagh #23

In a message dated 9/3/99 10:11:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
gewhite at crosslink.net writes:

> To add my 2 cents to the toilet question - my ethic for years has been not 
to
>  soil our own nest. I recall in the 1940s when the ocean front cottages in
>  Maine had sewer pipes that ran out into the sea about 100 feet - half a 
mile
>  from bathing beaches - and I knew that was bad. We certainly should not 
pump
>  solids into restricted areas like small lakes, marinas and harbors where 
> there
>  is no natural flushing.
>  
>      BUT - the sea is a big place. There is no way the recreational boats 
> pump
>  even a fraction of the waste the natural fish, seal, bird and crab 
> populations
>  drop, even in Chesapeake Bay. In my mind, pumping in mid-Bay, (even if not
>  "legal") is not hurting the environment.
>  
>      The runoff from city storm sewers let alone the sanitary sewers/sewage
>  plant effluent of course needs to be cleaned up, but even a few thousand
>  boats? Get serious.
>  
>      It is, of course, politically correct.....
>  
>      I note that in Western Canada (unlike Eastern Canada) no one, least of 
> all
>  the officials, makes any pretext that yacht pumping is a problem. I spent a
>  week in the Straits of Georgia inside Vancouver Island last month. This is 
> an
>  area quite analogous to Chesapeake Bay in size. There are NO rules there
>  against pumping overboard, even though there is as vast a boat population 
as
>  on the Bay.
>  
>      There are the beginnings of rules against pumping in enclosed areas 
like
>  Gorge Harbor and other marinas and small coves, which I feel is quite 
proper.
> 
>  
>      I note that politically correct envirionmental rules in the Washington 
> DC
>  area have reached the "don't breathe out" point. I got a flier here in
>  Alexandria suggesting a voluntary restriction on people going outside on 
> days
>  of high air pollution.
>  
>      I was an enthusiastic environmentalist for years, and still am, but for
>  things that matter.
>  
>      If the environmental thought police really cared there would be a lot 
> more
>  places for us to pump out. There is not one where I keep my boat on the
>  Piankatank River within at least 25 miles. So for now I pump into a 5 
gallon
>  plastic jerry can I carry up to the toilet when I get home. Otherwise.....
>  
>      Sorry for the explosion, guys.
>  
>                                          - Gordon White, A-275

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