I stand corrected!
Dave
I really don't see this as a big deal. I imagine more and more jurisdictions will require such info. Liveaboards in our marina in Seattle are required to provide pumpout certificates every month. For us, a pumpout gets entered in our log just like any other event. So, if a jurisdiction wants to go through it and track pumpouts, have at it.
Some people record everything they do on or to their boats. I'm just not that "anal" (bad pun).
As a practical matter, boaters could easily fake their pumpout logs or they could get a "real" pumpout every few weeks and dump their sewage overboard in the meantime. If I just spend a couple days in NC, who is to say I would have needed a pumpout during that time?
While we would like to think that people don't dump their sewage into the waterways, many folks do and for those who do, enforcement is almost impossible.
Trying to comply with different laws in a dozen states while transiting the AICW would be a pretty big burden on a private boater.
I think there was something about a no pump zone somewhere in NC and boats that operated in the zone had to keep logs? Nice thing about Oregon and Washington, both states support pumpout stations and they install them everywhere and the service is free.
Yes tough to regulate but now that I keep a log I've learned we put 100 gallons into a treatment plant rather than the ocean. I read where the county pump out boats in NJ took in 800,000 gallons last summer which was all from boats in the bays. Scary when you think it all went in the bay.
Dave
Yep and one storm and a single Jersey towns sewage treatment overrun exceeds all the pumpouts from boats in compliance. NJ from Little Egg North is a NDZ. There is a big difference between discharging treated waste and just pumping raw sewage overboard.Yes tough to regulate but now that I keep a log I've learned we put 100 gallons into a treatment plant rather than the ocean. I read where the county pump out boats in NJ took in 800,000 gallons last summer which was all from boats in the bays. Scary when you think it all went in the bay.
Dave
the law was passed but its not enforced in any way shape or form
But you said it... a storm causes an overrun but the same storm flushes the bay. You live by a nice open inlet with good tidal change. Once you get north of the LBI bridge and all the way to Toms River the only drainage is through skinny Barnegat Inlet. I well recall the "floaters" in Barnegat Bay before we had holding tanks and before LBI was sewered. The bay has come along way since those days... except for the increase in fertilizer runoff that is.Yep and one storm and a single Jersey towns sewage treatment overrun exceeds all the pumpouts from boats in compliance. NJ from Little Egg North is a NDZ. There is a big difference between discharging treated waste and just pumping raw sewage overboard.
Bill
Here is my follow up as usual politicians can not differentiate between the discharge of treated waste by a type 1 or type 2 treatment system. I see no harm in dumping treated waste. I totally agree when it comes to the discharge of untreated waste as in floaters. Now that pretty much everyone in our local cruising area has a type 3 (a holding tank) there should be no discharge of waste in NDZs. My type 1 a Raritan PurSan can only pull black water and treat it from my holding tank a type 3. This way I can legally operate in NDZ's. We get plenty of crap in Little Egg after storms it does not all get purged to the Ocean. Even say it did where would it end up? Probably the same places where we have extensive shoaling like almost out to the LE 3 mile bell. My feeling is the general public would be better served if boats were allowed to have annually inspected type 1 or type 2 treatment systems in addition to a type 3 for when you are in a marina.But you said it... a storm causes an overrun but the same storm flushes the bay. You live by a nice open inlet with good tidal change. Once you get north of the LBI bridge and all the way to Toms River the only drainage is through skinny Barnegat Inlet. I well recall the "floaters" in Barnegat Bay before we had holding tanks and before LBI was sewered. The bay has come along way since those days... except for the increase in fertilizer runoff that is.
Dave
While a burden...state laws do apply and can be enforced...NJ can and will force you out of their waters if you cannot prove some sort of boating safety course passed. The time frame is usually reasonable ...but still enforced.