The (inconvenient) Truth About No Discharge Zones: 50,000 gallons of sewage spill into Oakland-Alameda waters after power failure

Saturday, August 29, 2020

50,000 gallons of sewage spill into Oakland-Alameda waters after power failure

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/50-000-gallons-of-sewage-spill-into-15486932.php

East Bay water managers released about 50,000 gallons of sewage into the estuary between Oakland and Alameda on Saturday morning after a power failure caused equipment to fail at a wastewater treatment plant.

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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.