Alaska Cruise Ships Sewage

Brown is a Haines resident with a degree in Natural Resources Management.

Alaska cruise ships sewage. It must be done as per the international maritime laws. Its the latter scrubber washwater that may be the discharge of most concern. Alaska law requires that the owner or operator of a small commercial passenger vessel 50 to 249 overnight passengers determined by the number of lower berths registered under the commercial passenger vessel environmental compliance cpvec program may not discharge treated sewage graywater and other wastewater in alaska waters unless the.

Curiosity however reveals the. November 2002 Note- Weblinks removed 2013 due to web errors. According to information gathered by EPA during ship visits and via responses to EPAs survey of cruise ships operating in Alaska in 2004 the following waste streams were routed to the graywater system2 Wastewater from bar and pantry sinks.

While cruise ships have had a significant impact on Juneaus treatment system most of their wastewater goes elsewhere. Cruise Ship Wastewater Management Report August 2007 5 cruise ship traveling between Seattle and Alaska is treated and discharged while the ship is outside of the State and Puget Sound. Senate Bill 3 addressed the expiration of the Best Management Practices alternative to issuing a permit for small cruise ships and state ferries between 50 and 249 lower berths.

The public comment period started November 21 2017 and. The report suggests cruise ships plying waters between Washington and. Former DEC regulator Ed White analyzed data of all the large ships.

Cruise ships discharge water that is treated to some of the worlds most stringent standards. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation ADEC worked with a facilitator and a Negotiated Regulations Committee to draft regulations to accompany this law.

Forty large cruise ships operated in Alaska in 2019 of those twenty four ships were authorized to discharge treated wastewater in Alaska and eighteen ships discharged treated wastewater and conducted sampling. IStockphoto Whats at Stake Alaskas coastal waterways have been tainted by discharges of polluted water from cruise ships. Michelle Bonnet Hale the former director of the Division of Water in the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation DEC said it would be a step backward to require ships to hook up to community-based systems as some have suggested.