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Originally Posted by HuskyMan
St. Louis has over 400 pipes that dump RAW sewage into the Mississippi river and Missouri is worried about cremated remains?
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The Metropolitan District Commission's sewage treatment plant for the city of Hartford still dumps upwards of 1 BILLION gals. of untreated sewage into the CT River and the Wethersfield Cove every year during periods of excessive rain/storm water.
But pump your marine head overboard into inland or coastal waterways, get caught and you've got a $250 fine (which is understandable). Even an unsecured (read wire- or zip-tied) "Y" valve, to allow for holding tank or overboard discharge, will get you a warning at minimum and a fine at maximum even if the valve is closed for overboard discharge.
But somehow these issues still exist. When the question was asked at one of the numerous meetings on the subject, whether or not the MDC could re-plumb the overflow from the Wethersfield Cove (connected to the CT River with little water flow) directly to the CT River (with large water flow) the answer was "No, that would be illegal."
