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...felt the towline of the boatmen slacken...
...language of The Measures Taken, ceremonial and ideological at the same time, grows distant in repetition and aphorism. "The rope that cuts our backs lasts longer than ourselves," chant the boatmen that Young Comrade pities. "We must be blank pages on which the Revolution can write itself," say the leaders...
Strong Difference. Since the boating boom of the early 1960s, though, boatmen and lawmen have agreed that old-fashioned heads are no longer adequate. But they differ strongly in their assessment of two newer ways to control boat sewage: 1) "primary treatment" on board in a device known as a macerater-chlorinator, which vents the purified effluent over the side; or 2) an on-board holding tank requiring that the effluent be pumped out at a dockside station, which in turn pumps it into a local sewage-disposal system...
...second method is now widely established in Midwestern states, which are understandably worried about boat pollution. Their lakes and rivers are the major source of public water supplies. Chicago, for example, draws all its drinking water from Lake Michigan. By city ordinance in 1967. Chicago's boatmen were required to install holding tanks. Though boatmen sputtered, the regulations were reasonable. For one thing, Chicago provided sufficient pump-out stations. Thus no boatman need be caught with an overflowing holding tank and no place to go. For another, the plumbing for direct overboard venting could be left in place; thus...
...Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water Quality has not yet decided what the nationwide standards should be. Although the 1970 law called for the best devices "within the limits of available technology," the EPA is caught between state officials, who reject all macerater-chlorinators, and boatmen, who point out that these devices are now so efficient (and superior to many land-based sewage plants) that they should be acceptable nationally. Until the issue is resolved, boatmen in New York and similar states may be marooned...