Will someone with a social media account write Gwynn Guilford and tell her to get her facts straight about how sewage is handled aboard ship and who is accountable for transgressions?
She wrote a article for QUARTZ, (whatever that is) on or about 9 Dec. inciting the masses about what goes on at sea. People like this may have a motive but they may also be corrected, or better yet, set on a new path?
The article is on a ‘side bar’ on the Yahoo Finance page this morning (23 Dec), She is the editor for Quartz, no E mail, but lots of social media contact with about 3,200 followers.
[QUOTE=jimrr;150456]Will someone with a social media account write Gwynn Guilford and tell her to get her facts straight about how sewage is handled aboard ship and who is accountable for transgressions?
She wrote a article for QUARTZ, (whatever that is) on or about 9 Dec. inciting the masses about what goes on at sea. People like this may have a motive but they may also be corrected, or better yet, set on a new path?
The article is on a ‘side bar’ on the Yahoo Finance page this morning (23 Dec), She is the editor for Quartz, no E mail, but lots of social media contact with about 3,200 followers.[/QUOTE]
at least they corrected it…
The original article said One Billion TONS!
I agree, an experienced engineer, or at least a Turd Third should chime in here…
Sad thing about the article is that it ignores the known problem that fertilizer run off from heavy rains, lawn irrigation, etc. into rivers, bays, estuaries, etc. kills way more animals and vegetation than cruise ship or even cargo ship sewage could ever harm. Seriously,
“sewage from coastal development was likely a factor in the manatee die-off.”???
Did Quartz query opinion from an anti-manatee lobby on that? I recently moved out of Tampa. It’s just shameful what 40-50 yrs of population growth has done to one of the world’s largest fresh water aquifers and all of it’s once pristine springs.
That would be an article worth writing…
What happened in Tampa? I had a captain who lived there and always talked about swimming in crystal river or something along those lines. Is that all polluted now?
Crystal River is well north of Tampa. There and Homosasa Springs are havens for a lot of manatees, especially winter time because of warm springs still pumping tremendous volumes. Much smaller populations in those places so a lot less pollution, especially fertilizers.
The same can not be said for so much of the rest of FL which has numerous huge springs (amazing swimming holes with rope swings, freshwater fishes, etc.) that have dried up and died off from aquifer pollution (fertilizers, other toxins) as well as mass pumping from aquifer for farming, lawn irrigation, bottled water to other states.
Common occurrence in counties between Tampa and Orlando for sinkholes to collapse overnight due to mass aquifer pumping (thus destabilizing limestone strata) to protect strawberry crops from freezing in winter.
Florida’s aquifers contain about one-fi ft h the amount of water in all the Great Lakes, 100 times the amount in Lake Mead
on the Colorado River and 30,000 times the daily amount fl owing into the sea from Florida’s 13 major coastal rivers.
this is a video that any Floridian who cares about his/her state and what happens to their water supply should watch. It really was one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.
http://www.amazon.com/Waters-Journey-Hidden-Rivers-Florida/dp/B00014E9IO
It’s a pretty amazing system that is quickly being taxed beyond it’s limits.
Awwh man thats pretty interesting. I will watch the video for sure when i have a minute. Glad to hear some of the aquifers north of the city arent as polluted. Sounds beautiful. I would hate to see it destroyed. Water is the next oil. I watched the CEO of nestle talk about his plans to gain control of as much water as possible to create a monopoly of the future of selling bottled water. The farming thing is another issue. I guess tons of fertilizer is dumped into the gulf from sputhwest pass alone each year. Pretty bad for the marine life as im sure the fishermen could tell you.
Another problem we are experiencing in California is not only are we in a severe drought, but with the recent advent of the gentlemen farmer or small private organic farm local watersheds and rivers are being depleted super fast. People are pumping from local streams and rivers near there property with no real accountability. Its creates a huge impact on the water table and the region has yet to come up with any kind of way to regulate it.
FWIW, Seattle dumps a billion gallons of sewage into Puget Sound every week. Much, if not most of that is treated to a far lesser quality than what a cruise ship discharges.
http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/wtd/About/System/Facts.aspx
I think if you run the maths using 100 us gallons a day per person (combined BW & GW) the entire world fleet of cruise ships probably disgorges less than 200 million tons a year.
TREATED black water would be a fraction of that, at about a liter a flush.
Better not tell them about all crewboats and utility boats with no waste water treatment systems on them…