The (inconvenient) Truth About No Discharge Zones: April 2018

Via The Baltimore Sun:

Baltimore’s Department of Public Works says about 4.1 million gallons of a sewage and rainwater mix was released into the Jones Falls on Monday, as heavy rain inundated the sewer system.

The largest release was more than 3.7 million gallons in the area of the 400 block of E. Preston St.

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

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Only 4.1 MILLION GALLONS this time. Blame the boaters?

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