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Waste Disposal from
Pleasure Craft
in New Brunswick
Water is one of our most precious and fragile resources. Clean water - necessary for drinking, recreation and survival of aquatic life - can only be maintained if we use it wisely. We all have a responsibility to keep it clean.
Discharging Wastewater from
Pleasure Craft:
All pleasure craft equipped with onboard toilets should also be equipped with holding tanks to store toilet wastewater. This storage equipment should have deck fittings and piping for removal of toilet waste at shore-based marine pump-out stations.
Portable toilets should be secured
to the boat and adapted to the deck fitting for shore-based pump-out.
On-board sanitary facilities should be kept in good operating condition.
Keeping Our Waterways
Clean:
When
fishing and boating, do not throw garbage overboard. Keep it properly
contained until you reach an on-shore disposal site and take any returnable
beverage containers to a redemption centre.
When re-fueling your boat, take care to avoid spilling gas into the water
or on shore.
If
you see someone polluting our waterways, or come across pollution in the
water, or on shore, report these incidents to the nearest regional office
of the New Brunswick Department of Environment:
| Bathurst Region | Miramichi Region |
| Fredericton Region | Moncton Region |
| Grand Falls Region | Saint John Region |
Please see the attached list of pump-out
stations in New Brunswick. For further information, contact the
New Brunswick Department of Environment at (506) 444-4599.