No Boat Washing in MD Marinas?!

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JoeTallyHo

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My marina has signs all over that as of 10/01/10, washing your boat while blocked is prohibited unless you use the wash pad which has filtered drains. As a result, the marina has shut off water to all land storage areas. I usually do a thorough pressure washing of my outdrives (marina does a quick surface pressure, but misses some nook and crannies)after the boat is blocked and hull washing in the spring. Now, I cannot do any of this unless I have the boat moved to the wash pad ($110).

The marina said this is a Maryland EPA law and she went to a meeting in Annapolis on this.

What the marina doesn't know if this applies to just washing of the anti-fouling paint or any hull washing - which does not make sense since washing your boat in your slip is still allowed. So, to be safe, the marina banned all washing.

What's the scoop?
 
Our friends in MD are at it again....

nothing they do regarding recreational boating makes sense...when the land side sewage treatment plants dump raw sewage by the thousands of gallons, and Agriculture and corp and Gov't dumps toxic waste, chemicals and manure - and the state does nothing, but list them.

After having read the previously released information...the marina apparently is "reacting" to the proposed changes...

Contact the state, and see if you can get real information and a name...then let your peers know and to contact their reps...else what you see is what you get.

MY guess is that soon each of us boaters will have to buy some sort of "license" to pump engine cooling water to use, another to use a bilge pump, another to use cockpit scuppers and one for air/heat pumps if you have one....

Follow the money and the eco freaks who petition the state for these ill conceived, impossible to comply regulations and laws.
 
Mike,

My slip is at SJC. I land store next door at Duffy Creek. But, Duffy says it applies to all marinas.

I'll try to get more details from them.

Joe
 
Your marina is half right. These are PROPOSED rules by MDE. I started a thread on it:

http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=142019

BoatUS has been active trying to fight it. As usual, a bunch or restrictive rules written by people who don't understand them. At last check, this was possibly going to open back up for public comment. We all should start sending e-mails to MDE.
 
I talked to the BoatUS Govt affairs person familiar with this issue. As Mixman says, it is still in the proposed phased. They and the Marine Trades Association which lobbies for marinas are fighting this. I gave Duffy Creek Marina the contact information, he wanted to talk to them. Duffy says they were being proactive in advance of this becoming law.

Just like the position BoatUS took in getting boat owners exempted from needing discharge permits, they are trying to get boat washing considered part of normal operations as part of this legislation.

Even as the proposed law is written now, boat washing above the bottom paint waterline is allowed. When I presented the info. from BoatUS to Duffy, they agreed that boat washing in the land storage area is OK. And as my luck would have it, the water line to the land storage area is broken and won't be fixed until they get all their boats blocked.

Mixman - good thread. I wouldn't have started this one had i recognized it as the same issue.

Joe
 
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