Start big and work your way down

I am well aware that as boaters, we must pursue any avenue to keep our waters and sea beds free from toxic materials. Officials tend to blame recreational boaters for these problems instead of looking at the largest polluters that deposit the bulk to the sea floor. Commercial and naval ships have underwater anti-fouling material in far greater quantity than the smaller boat fleets. The city of Los Angeles has had sewage pipes emitting toxins that have discharged into Santa Monica bay and Los Angeles Harbor for decades to the extent that fish and shellfish are unsafe to consume. USC and UCLA have conducted underwater studies near the discharge pipes and found several mutated species. Can our officials get some backbone and attack the "90 percenters" as a starting point?

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Thomas Cameron

Frisco, CO

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