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Pascal Gademer wrote:
> well, if you already have a holding tank, adding the lectra san gives you
> the best of both world... using the holding tank in NDZ, or in nice
> anchorage (I don't care if it's treated.. I don't want to swim with it:-) )
But it's ok to use the lee rail, right? :)
You've prob'ly swum in many an anchorage where Type I and II devices
have been in use without knowing it--which is as it should be. And you
remind me of the time I was standing in the cockpit of a friend's boat
feeding stale crackers to a flock of about 2 dozen Canada geese...who
were doing what geese do whenever the urge strikes. He was holding forth
about how he didn't want to "swim in poop and don't want my kids to swim
in it either"...but when the crackers were gone and his two sons dived
off the boat into the flock of geese, he never batted an eye. And
although I nearly strangled on the effort, I didn't say a word. :)
Fwiw, 1000 boats equipped with Lectra/Sans, all gathered in the same
area would have less impact--bacteria BOD, etc--on the surrounding
envvironment than just ONE holding tank discharged overboard. Going out
at least 3 miles to do it is legal and has less impact on inshore
waters, but 20-100 gallons sewage has just as much impact on the marine
life in the waters immediately around a boat 3 miles from shore as it
does on marine life immediately around a boat closer to shore.
> As I mentioned in a previous post which you didn't get yet on the digest,
> Raritan's Hold n Treat is listed in their catalogue, page 11 of the PDF
> downloadable from their site. Vic Williams said it shoudl be available Oct.
It's been in development for a couple of years...originally it was
scheduled to be available last spring. I have serious reservations about
it...starting with concerns about damage to the electrodes in the L/S
from chemical holding tank products because people either won't bother
read the part of the directions that tell 'em they have to use a
non-chemical products, or will ignore those directions if they start
having odor from the tank vent.
--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://69.20.93.241/store/customer/product.php?productid=40&cat=&page=1
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