Alaska Cruise Ships Sewage

Challenging Alaskas Cruise Ship Pollution Cruise ship at Alaskas Tracy Arm Fjord.

Alaska cruise ships sewage. Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. It must be done as per the international maritime laws. The public comment period started November 21 2017 and.

The sewage on the cruise ship includes the wastewater from the bathrooms toilets urinals medical premises and other similar facilities. Alaska wont see any large cruise ships this year. Ships can dump treated sewage anywhere in the ocean except in Alaskan waters where companies must comply with higher state standards.

Former DEC regulator Ed White analyzed data of all the large ships. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation ADEC worked with a facilitator and a Negotiated Regulations Committee to draft regulations to accompany this law. In fact Annex IV does not request operational sewage treatment plants on board to meet any concentration limits.

The purpose of this sampling was to characterize graywater and sewage generated onboard and to evaluate the performance of various advanced. 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. 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.

November 2002 Note- Weblinks removed 2013 due to web errors. The report suggests cruise ships plying waters between Washington and. IStockphoto Whats at Stake Alaskas coastal waterways have been tainted by discharges of polluted water from cruise ships.

Table 1 lists wastewater treatment systems onboard large cruise ships and 2019 authorized discharges in Alaska. 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. The Impact of Cruise Ship Wastewater Discharge on Alaska Waters.