The (inconvenient) Truth About No Discharge Zones: September 2011

Baltimore Country, Maryland, spills another half a million gallons of raw sewage into the Patapsco River on top of the 100 MILLION gallons spilled recently.

Why is it that if a boater discharges treated waste it is referred to as "dumping" but when a municipality discharges raw waste it's called a "spill"? Isn't a spill something that happens at a grocery store in isle 6 and is cleaned up with paper towels?

The great farce of NDZ

It is already illegal for vessels of any type to discharge raw sewage (unless offshore -ocean- by 3 or more miles) into US waterways. The only parties who get away with dumping raw sewage are municipalities who's waste treatment systems overflow or malfunction (some at an alarmingly regular rate, like every time it rains). What's at stake here are on-board treatment systems. Systems that output treated waste that is many, many times cleaner than what a waste treatment plant discharges. In the words of the Maryland Attorney General's office; on-board treatment systems account for less than .1% of any water quality issues (actually, less than .003% to be exact)! Yet, supporters of NDZ legislation want to criminalize their use.

The (inconvenient) Truth About No Discharge Zones

Monday, September 19, 2011

100,000,525 gallons of raw sewage and counting....

Saturday, September 3, 2011

17 million gallons daily to the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant in Baltimore

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