Alaska Cruise Ships Sewage

Table 1 lists wastewater treatment systems onboard large cruise ships and 2019 authorized discharges in Alaska.

Alaska cruise ships sewage. 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. It must be done as per the international maritime laws. The report suggests cruise ships plying waters between Washington and.

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. All cruise ships have wastewater treatment systems on board for their gray and black water. The Mountain Point wastewater treatment plant run by Ketchikans borough is allowed to put out more than 10 times as much as cruise ship systems.

When it comes to handling treatment and disposal of sewage on the ship. 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. Brown is a Haines resident with a degree in Natural Resources Management.

On some cruise ships especially many of those that travel in Alaskan waters sewage is treated using Advanced Wastewater Treatment AWT systems that generally provide improved screening treatment disinfection and sludge processing as compared with traditional MSDs marine sanitation devices. The ships dump wastewater into Alaskan coastal waters and leave partially-treated sewage heavy metals and chemical pollutants in their wakes. Find a list of ships and where they are permitted to dump in the Cruise Ship Discharge Status.

Somecruise ships are permitted to dump while docked at port. The purpose of this sampling was to characterize graywater and sewage generated onboard and to evaluate the performance of various advanced. Commercial Passenger Vessel Environmental Compliance Program.

November 2002 Note- Weblinks removed 2013 due to web errors. 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 Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation ADEC worked with a facilitator and a Negotiated Regulations Committee to draft regulations to accompany this law.