localboy
Scraping Paint
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2019
- Messages
- 450
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- 'Au Kai (Ocean Traveler)
- Vessel Make
- C-Dory 25
And when the West Point Treatment Plant flooded OUT in Seattle a couple of years ago they dumped a Billion Gallons of untreated waste into Central Puget Sound NDZ in just the FIRST WEEK. While they did restore some functionality, they were still dumping tens of million of gallons a week for several months.
A billion gallons in a week is five million boats pumping their twenty gallon tanks overboard ten times a week. I know some boaters that are full of it but no one is that full of it. So, if My tank is getting full and there’s not a free pump out handy, I just call my boat West Point for a few minutes.
Ah, but King County is “immune” from laws they don’t follow or agree with, politically. There is more human waste entering the Sound from the homeless drug addicts than any boaters could produce. I’ve literally seen 5 gallon buckets FULL of it at illegal camps and derelict, drug RVs are rampant. You think they go dump at approved sites? Hell, the dopers will drop trau and drop a deuce on a sidewalk in downtown without consequences. Like I said, like a third world country.
San Fran is the same. Any city that has a website to report the location of human waste is out of control.
But yeah, boaters are a problem.
We boat out of Everett a lot. It’s the one of the largest & busiest small boat ramps/marina ON THE WEST COAST (13 lanes, 350 parking spots for trucks/trailers). Most of the time their pump outs are broken; we have gone from pump out to pump out looking for a functioning one. A time waster and a PIA. I’ve complained to the marina mgmt and gotten nowhere.
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