Doug
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Post by Doug on Aug 21, 2006 23:40:27 GMT -8
I was wondering how often the ferries fill up their fresh water tanks...and how do they do it?
Also, what sort of treatment plant do they have aboard? How often do they have to empty the waste?
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Post by nolonger on Aug 22, 2006 5:42:23 GMT -8
as a rule, fresh water is taken on overnight, sometimes tanks are topped up while in the dock between trips if necessary. A potable water line is connected to the water supply on the ramp. There is no treatment as it's water taken from the city or munincipal water supply where the terminal is located and the cities treat the water anyway.
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Post by NMcKay on Aug 22, 2006 8:06:40 GMT -8
most vessels (klitsa and Quinsam are as far as i knw) have treatment plants onboard, then they send the treated water back out to the ocean.
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Post by EGfleet on Aug 22, 2006 8:34:36 GMT -8
Rules ban sewage dumping
Luke Brocki, Peak Reporter 08/09/2006
BC Ferries vessels servicing the Powell River area will have to install filtration systems to meet the Conservative government's new discharge standards.
The rules, not yet in effect, will ban the dumping of untreated sewage by pleasure crafts and larger ships within approximately 22 kilometres of Canada's coast.
Ten of the fleet's 34 ferries already have on-board sewage treatment systems that comply with the new regulations, said spokeswoman Deborah Marshall, but these are not found locally.
The Queen of Burnaby, sailing between Westview and Little River, has a filtration system, but it's not functioning properly, and effluent is pumped overboard.
The North Island Princess, running between Westview and Blubber Bay, also discharges overboard.
The Queen of Tsawwassen, the summer boat making runs between Earls Cove and Saltery Bay, also discharges overboard. Its winter counterpart, the Queen of Chilliwack, does have holding tanks, but needs a new system to comply with the Transport Canada regulations.
The company will have five years to upgrade the ferries or find alternate solutions of waste disposal, said Marshall.
"We're going to be actively implementing a plan to get all our vessels into compliance. Having said that, there will be some ships that will retire by 2011," she added.
Marshall was unable to define costs of the upgrades, but said they would be "quite expensive."
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Post by poeticlives on Aug 23, 2006 23:12:25 GMT -8
Ejecting overboard has a long history you know...
Ever since the potty bridge was built over the Thames River in the Middle Ages...
Look Out Below!
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Post by Doug on Aug 24, 2006 0:12:05 GMT -8
as a rule, fresh water is taken on overnight, sometimes tanks are topped up while in the dock between trips if necessary. A potable water line is connected to the water supply on the ramp. There is no treatment as it's water taken from the city or munincipal water supply where the terminal is located and the cities treat the water anyway. Sorry for not clarifying that. I meant sewage treatment plant. Do any of the ferries (namely the northern ones) have desalination plants onboard? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 21:40:57 GMT -8
Throwing out the waste water is how the custom of the man walking on the outside of the curb came about. The man could take a soaking, but it was not so good for us fair maidens......
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Post by poeticlives on Aug 28, 2006 17:11:03 GMT -8
It's well that there are no sidewalks on water...
Anyways, that is of course highly removed from the point of the matter.
I presume the ships named that dispose overboard (the Tsawassen, The Chilliwack, The North Island Princess) are examples of all the ferries whose sewage treatment systems are either outdated or nonfunctioning. I suspect more ferries dump.
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Post by Doug on Aug 28, 2006 21:03:18 GMT -8
Speaking of "gray water", or should I say "yellow water", has anyone ever peed off the side of a ferry? ;D  |
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Aug 28, 2006 21:21:16 GMT -8
I am afraid I dont want to even comment or answer to that question.
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Post by Balfour on Aug 28, 2006 21:27:40 GMT -8
Speaking of "gray water", or should I say "yellow water", has anyone ever peed off the side of a ferry? ;D Can't say I have... |
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Post by Ferryman on Aug 28, 2006 21:30:09 GMT -8
I'm sure there is someone out there that can say that. I wouldn't be the least bit suprised actually.
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Post by Balfour on Aug 28, 2006 21:36:45 GMT -8
Peeing off the side of a ferry sounds pretty Biff-like to me.
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Post by Curtis on Aug 29, 2006 6:17:28 GMT -8
LOL...Ummmm...No Comment. Sounds like something a young kid would do.
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Post by Dane on Aug 31, 2006 22:24:24 GMT -8
...and how do they do it? I think it all comes from Tofino? |
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