Unbelievable !!!! I too see all the chemicals and oil in the ship canal
and last week a big oil slick on Lake Union. More legislation does no
good and solves no problems if the current laws are not enforced. Don't
our paid officials have more important business to attend to or is this
being pushed by the small shipyards in order to get more business. It
sure isn't prompted from any environmental issues I know of. Please also
send me the reports of environmental damage that can be directly and
unrefuteably traced to wiping the algae off the hull of a sail boat at
dock.
Mailing address for report;
Hamp Phillips
6500 Harbour Heights Pkwy.
Mukilteo, Wa. 98275
> ----------
> From: Donald K. Wills II[SMTP:dkwills@brigadoon.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 1998 6:48 PM
> To: 'Wayne A. Berge'; sbai461@ecy.wa.gov
> Cc: Anyo Domoto; Byron Meseroll; Bill Tuff; CYC racers list; J35 Net
> send; Joy Okazaki; Mike Johnson; Neil Bogue; Perri Lynch; Brian Miller
> Subject: RE: Cleaning Sailboats In The Water In A Marina,
> Proposal to Delete State Permits
>
> As always it is easier to enforce outlandish legislation on the small
> and unorganized, besides we don't pay 'hefty' fees to support city,
> state or federal government.
>
> I too find it unnerving that anyone would publish a statement that
> touts wiping down a sailboat creates untold havoc on the environment.
> Weekly my trips from Lake Union to Shilshole cause me to pass through
> the working part of the ship canal and invariably I encounter the
> colorful rainbow sheen on the water. This is visible damage that
> goes unreckoned on a weekly if not daily basis.
>
> Better enforcement certainly is the key, but not at a level that
> produces unmeasurable amounts of toxin. The first battle should be
> waged against the factories that line the waterways, against the
> working boats that send hundreds of gallons of petroleum products into
> the sound daily and the stormwater systems that add to the pollution
> from every catch basin.
>
> I too request your data sheets that purport to show the sailing
> community as a menace to the environment.
>
> Don Wills
> 7903 8th NE
> Seattle, WA, 98115
>
> ----------
> From: Wayne A. Berge[SMTP:bergewd@fidalgo.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 1998 10:13 AM
> To: sbai461@ecy.wa.gov
> Cc: J35 Net send; CYC racers list; Perri Lynch; Neil Bogue; Mike
> Johnson; Joy Okazaki; Byron Meseroll; Brian Miller; Bill Tuff; Anyo
> Domoto
> Subject: Cleaning Sailboats In The Water In A Marina, Proposal to
> Delete State Permits
>
> This is not a scientific approach to producing clean waters in Puget
> Sound.
> It is ridiculous to propose that a towel wipe of a sailboat bottom is
> going
> to negatively effect the ecology nearly as much as the thousands of
> pounds
> of petroleum products that wind up in Puget Sound via street water
> runoff,
> gas powered work and pleasure boats, and commercial manufacturing by
> products. The toxic coatings on commercial shipping greatly exceeds
> the
> effects of cleaning all of the sailboats in Puget Sound. If you want
> to
> keep Puget Sound "pure", go back to horses on land, and sailboats on
> the
> sea.
> I write for the thousand sailors that participate in the J35 Class
> Association.
> Please forward the data that you have that indicates how much
> copper is added to the Sound when one 35' sailboat is "towel wiped" in
> the
> water.
>
> Wayne A. Berge
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 7 12:00:13 1998