illegal discharge.

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DougLas

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The consensus is no dumping over board from the head in freshwater lakes. And we all follow it with our holding tanks. How many fishing charter boats are out there with 6 fisherman on board and no holding tanks, or holding tanks that are not used. I see them coming in from a day of fishing and never stop for a pump out. Even when going out.
Fished with my father in law and was handed a bucket or told to stand up out of the wind.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?
 
It seems like it's illegal to discharge overboard but ok if you discharge yourself while in the water.
Loophole perhaps?
Imagine the size of holding tank contents a whale discharges. :grin:

I see lots of people in lakes and springs, drinking and having a good time but no one
is getting out to go to the bathroom. :smt021



Jeff
 
C'mon Man. You are on Lake Erie, a lake that exchanges its water every how many days and sends the polluted water out to the Atlantic. There must be more important things in your life to worry about than someone taking a leak in your lake.

Here's a point to ponder.....even with Lake Erie dumping its water out to the Atlantic, the water you're getting to refill Erie comes from the lakes upstream from you, and MILLIONS of people up there have already peed in it.

Now THAT is going to keep you up at night! :smt021
 
I'm completely ok with "recycled beer" going into our lake one bladder-full at a time.

The scumbag who was on my pier who would pump his 60 gallon tank of sewage into the marina on the other hand... Yes TurdTim, EVERYONE was glad to see you not return this season!
 
Illegal discharge in Florida is just another revenue enhancing tactic by the local sheriffs. These are the fine folks that raid marinas and do the dye drop in the heads, if any dye shows up outside, even a very tiny bit, chaching! $500 to the county!

And never mind all the crap dumping the locals do living along the waterways, it's them rich fancy yacht owners destroying our environment!
 
It takes 2.6 years to cycle the water out of Erie. (and that's the shortest of the Great Lakes!)

Gofirstclass said:
C'mon Man. You are on Lake Erie, a lake that exchanges its water every how many days and sends the polluted water out to the Atlantic. There must be more important things in your life to worry about than someone taking a leak in your lake.

Here's a point to ponder.....even with Lake Erie dumping its water out to the Atlantic, the water you're getting to refill Erie comes from the lakes upstream from you, and MILLIONS of people up there have already peed in it.

Now THAT is going to keep you up at night! :smt021
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Gofirstclass said:
C'mon Man. You are on Lake Erie, a lake that exchanges its water every how many days and sends the polluted water out to the Atlantic. There must be more important things in your life to worry about than someone taking a leak in your lake.

Here's a point to ponder.....even with Lake Erie dumping its water out to the Atlantic, the water you're getting to refill Erie comes from the lakes upstream from you, and MILLIONS of people up there have already peed in it.

Now THAT is going to keep you up at night! :smt021
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Ahh...That awkward moment when you realize you've underestimated just a tad :huh:
 
I'm guilty. I dump my holding tank into Lake Superior all the time.

Here's my holding tank.

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Gofirstclass said:
C'mon Man. You are on Lake Erie, a lake that exchanges its water every how many days and sends the polluted water out to the Atlantic. There must be more important things in your life to worry about than someone taking a leak in your lake.

Here's a point to ponder.....even with Lake Erie dumping its water out to the Atlantic, the water you're getting to refill Erie comes from the lakes upstream from you, and MILLIONS of people up there have already peed in it.

Now THAT is going to keep you up at night! :smt021
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OK, I confess, I drank a lot of beer last weekend...there's a warm spot heading to Lake Erie, should arrive in about 225 years.:grin:
 
Woody said:
OK, I confess, I drank a lot of beer last weekend...there's a warm spot heading to Lake Erie, should arrive in about 225 years.:grin:
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Aha! I knew global warming was caused by you Americans! One leak at a time. It adds up.
 
Boater420 said:
Ahh...That awkward moment when you realize you've underestimated just a tad :huh:
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Dang. I hate it when I do that. My guesstimate was only off by about 900 days. Oh well, a guy can't be perfect ALL the time! :huh:

But I guess in the long run, the longer the cycle to replace the water the more water is in the lake and the less effect a few fishermen and other non-descript beer drinkers emptying THEIR holding tanks into the lake will have.
 
I wonder where the fish empty their holding tank?

Not to make light of the subject. I would not hesitate to report someone discharging their holding tank illegally, but I have been guilty of creating a warm spot or two in the lake while scrubbing the hull.
 
Not to mention all of those Lake Erie Walleye discharging in the lake. As far as lake water retention, there are 2 different numbers. The total water replacement which is approximately 2.7 years and the flow through which is the flow that equals the volume, that is measured in days. These day with the water so high, the flow through is much much faster.
 
Fun conversation on a crappy topic.
Think if all boats were discharging in the marina after a nice day out on the water...I think its illegal due to the possible local effect it would have.

I feel better using a shore based pump out station but, don't think I'm saving the world by doing so....the city "treated" run off or accidental sometimes necessary (heavy rains) raw discharge is a far larger problem.
 
Mark.... exactly. It's feel good "****" because I never dump my holding tank into the water, only into a pump out boat. The pump out boat brings it to the town system,,,,which in turn during a large storm it can't handle, wait for it....dumps it into the water we boat in
 
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