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...York State has 124 pump-out stations-only 18 of them on the coasts. The New York side of Long Island Sound, plied by many thousands of boats, has only three stations. If only half of the 30,000 toilet-equipped boats in New York's coastal waters headed for the pump-out stations at the close of a weekend, there would be almost 1,000 boats lined up at each station; round-the-clock pumping would take about three weeks...
...state has failed to provide, or require marinas to install, sufficient pump-out stations. After suspending enforcement for four years, New York decided to crack down this spring. Lawmen have been told that they may now board a boat without a warrant to ascertain whether it has an approved toilet. Operating a nonapproved toilet (or-as the law now reads-even being seasick over the side) is a misdemeanor that carries a $100 fine or 60 days in jail, or both...
...lined with disposable plastic bags-and then violating the law by surreptitiously jettisoning the bags rather than turn their floating homes into floating cesspools. Others are installing compromise devices with small holding tanks good for about 50 flushes, which can then be carried ashore and spilled into the nearest toilet. Whatever the size of a holding tank, however, critics point out that its contents end up in municipal sewage plants -which in turn dump their often undertreated effluent into waterways...
...toilet is enclosed in an undulate black fiber-glass column that rises to the ceiling. There are no walls between sleeping, living and bath areas, which are raised two steps above the sitting and eating zones...
...cells. A very young looking officer then activated a switch, producing the grinding sound of metal sliding on metal. The sound culminated with a dull clunk. I walked through the door to join five friends in a five-by-seven cell containing two bare metal "bunks," a toilet, and a small sink...