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The United States of America is always creating new laws to make vehicles “less harmful” to the environment, but they do nothing to make boats run cleaner or more efficient. Nor is anything done to keep the waters clean. Most lagoons will have a film of gasoline and oil over them by the summer, and that is detrimental to the organisms living in the lagoon. The ecosystem cleans up the oil over the winter, but no sooner are the water ways clear we make them even worse than the year before. The waters that surround this great country provide a living for many fishermen, wildlife protection workers, and for many environmental workers. When these waters become polluted this makes the fishermen’s job harder because the pollution can affect the waters salinity.
It has been discovered that ethanol mixed gasoline eats through fiberglass fuel tanks and many boaters are unaware of this. The potential problem is that many newer boats that are made of mostly fiberglass can have their fuel tank rot away without the boater having any idea until it’s too late and there are gallons of fuel per vessel spilled into the water ways. This would then sink into the water tables and make the city water tainted costing more money to clean the cities drinking water. (Douglass A 6)
Water pollution harms more than the ecosystems of the water ways, but also cost the people more money so that drinking water can be purified. In harming the ecosystems the seafood that many enjoy becomes even more costly than it already is. The nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, NJ annually has a giant fish kill due to the release of hot water from the plant. That plant also happens to be the oldest power plant in our country, and they have halted the planting of gardens in front because they died due to the polluted soil. The soil is also farther away from the plant than the water, so it would be safe to incur that the water could also be contaminated.
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