robertj
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After the water authority reduced its fine by blaming yachtsman discharging raw sewage into the river, I wonder if this will be the catalyst of enforced holding tanks on all yachts?
Salcombe water pollution
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aslabend
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Or force Salcombe to build a marine so that boaters can use are shore facilities?
Vitesse
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There's a new HM at Salcombe so this issue may be something he's got plans for.
There won't be any form of marina development, though.
There won't be any form of marina development, though.
aslabend
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Shame, I think it would benefit greatly from a small 2000-3000 berth marina. Couldn't spoil it anyway
Vitesse
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Hehe. They could put it where that pesky eel grass grows.
Short of a voluntary code of conduct I don't what can be done about the sewage, though. Maybe a drastic cut in moorings? One of the yacht club racers commented that there were too many of those in his way.
It's only an issue for a few weeks in the summer, whatever is decided.
aslabend
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Maybe compulsory potty training for Salcombe boaters?
blackbeard
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there's a huge problem at Salcombe - far too many moorings in a rather small harbour. I have spent many happy hours sailing dinghies through the moorings and yes, it's a bit like threading needles. And this potentially beautiful harbour is looking increasingly like the seagoing equivalent of a car park.Shame, I think it would benefit greatly from a small 2000-3000 berth marina. Couldn't spoil it anyway
I have contemplated the possibility of taking one of the many shallow creeks and putting a dam across, with a lock, and walk-ashore pontoons and services, it would localise the problem and allow shore (and loo) access. I don't see why not - on the whole if would improve the view, allow easier navigation and make for the cash-deficient local council a tidy profit.
Of course there is a walk-ashore pontoon allowing a reasonable stay - if your boat is small, handy and can take ground - at Kingsbridge.
Meanwhile, we could try to persuade mariners to use the on-board loo only on an ebbing tide.
James_Calvert
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It's the ebbing tide that takes stuff past North and South Sands. I emphasise past because the town's former major sewage outlet was just under Fort Charles, just by North Sands, and it was formerly thought OK to release it on the ebb tide. So I find the report that yachties are being blamed rather incredible - did the water authority actually produce any evidence that yachties were at all to blame?
