Acts For Cruise Ship Dumping

According to environmental regulatory lead at Royal Caribbean International Nick Rose the idea that cruise lines go round dumping stuff in the ocean is just wrong.

Acts for cruise ship dumping. Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. Alaska has additional regulations for dumping near its waterways. Regulating cruise ships under the EPAs National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for sewage graywater and bilge water.

Title I of the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act MPRSA applies to cruise ships and other vessels and makes it illegal to transport garbage from the United States for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters without a permit or to dump any material transported from a location outside the United States into US. Thereof do cruise ships dump garbage in the ocean. In September 2018 the Holland America Westerdam cruise ship dumped 26000 gallons of grey water into Glacier Bay National Park and failed to notify the Coast Guard - a felony offense committed within the National Park.

The bilge water routinely dumped by the cruise ships was sufficiently toxic that the US. Such discharge has to be noted into a log book which is a legal document and verified by various authorities during inspections. Cruise ships are not required to have permits to dump raw sewage into the ocean and are not required to monitor or report what they release.

Under the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and the Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act cruise ships are not allowed to emit plastic waste within 25 miles of shore quite a glitch. Unlike cities however cruise ships are exempt from the discharge permitting program of the nations preeminent water pollution control law the Clean Water Act. Princess has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from its deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional acts to cover it up.

Section 311 of the Clean Water Act as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 applies to cruise ships and prohibits discharge of oil or hazardous substances in harmful quantities into or upon US. Prohibiting the discharge of sewage graywater and bilge water within twelve miles of shore. Durbins Clean Cruise Ship Act would amend the Clean Water Act and protect US.

We have sewage treatment plants onboard cruise ships or any ships. Cruise ships the size of small cities ply the waters off our coasts producing and then dumping large amounts of sewage and other wastes. Cruise ships are exempt from the discharge permitting program of the Clean Water Act the law that cities and pollution-producing industries must follow.