harbor cleanup/ unbelievable!

seakdivers · Mar 15, 2003

We were having our weekly "dive club" meeting last night (well ok, it's actually beer Friday at the LDS), and the former owner of the shop said that he had approached the City, and volunteered his time & some other divers' time to clean up all the garbage under the local harbors.
They told him no, because that would just generate more garbage for the City to have to dispose of!

Can you believe that?

We were thinking of who to appeal to next - any ideas?

Bob3 · Mar 15, 2003

Excellent example of the "priorities" of some of our elected officials. Maybe they're afraid you'll find some of the bodies...

Check with your local Department of Natural Resources, they may be more open minded.

slowdiver · Mar 15, 2003

How many truckloads of trash did they expect?

PaulB · Mar 15, 2003

That's stupid. You'd think that since people volunteerd to clean up the water...it may attract new tourists therefor making the city more prosperous.

seakdivers · Mar 15, 2003

I don't understand either.

I think most of our elected officials are of the "out of sight/ out of mind" mindset. As long as they don't have to see the garbage, it doesn't exist.

I wonder what they would do if we just hauled all the crap up and put it in one of the harbor parking lots?
We would probably get fined!

Northeastwrecks · Mar 16, 2003

One possible suggestion would be for the LDS to order the Project Aware material. It contains some extremely informative, although somewhat preachy, material on the damage caused by contamination of the water.

Does the state department of environmental affairs (or the Alaska equivalent) deal with your harbors? The reason I ask is because, in Massachusetts, it is my understanding that MassPort, a state agency, deals with Boston Harbor. If so, they may be interested in your proposal.

Do you have curbside trash pickup. If you, you could always put out one week.

raviepoo · Mar 16, 2003

Why don't we all ship you our trash so you can dispose of it in your harbor? Or better yet, you can put it out for curb side pick up?

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