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BioSok for fuel & oil absorption and remediation in boat bilges
 biosok BIO-SOK® Bilge Maintenance System is an easy-to-use, completely nontoxic and environmentally sound means of capturing and biodegrading the oil and fuel that leaks in a boat bilge and often escapes into marina waters. When you need a way to keep marina waters free of bilge oil and other fuel contaminants, uses BIO-SOK® Bilge Maintenance System.
Placed inside the bilge, the BIO-SOK® begins to absorb the hydrocarbons, it reduces odor, and biodegrades the leaking oil. BioSok will generally last a full boating season under most normal conditions. When BioSok is depleted, you can simply throw away the outside fiber sleeve. There is nothing left to harm the environment.
The BIO-SOK® is safe, clean and keeps working so you don't have to.
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Bilge Water
Every boat must have a BIO-SOK, installed in its bilge in order to prevent oil or fuel from being pumped overboard creating a sheen on the marina waters. Surficants may not be used, as they cause oil to sink to the bottom of the canals.
Excerpt from Belle Maer Harbor's Environmental Rules and Regulations Contract.
Belle Maer Harbor was recently required to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit (NPDES). This permit is now required of all marina facilities although all facilities have not yet obtained it. The purpose of the permit is to allow a mechanism for preventing pollutants of all types to enter the waterways of the state and nation, which is something we all want, because none of us want to contribute to the degradation of our beautiful lake. Among some of the things the permit requires Belle Maer is a best management practices plan that prescribes positive steps that we, as a business, can take to avoid having pollutants get in the water, as well as steps we can take to help our tenants with cleanliness, but we have had to take additional steps to help prevent storm water runoff from picking up contaminants on shore and carrying them into the canals and lake that surround us. Part of the management plan requires that we eliminate the possibility of pollution from the boats in the harbor. You are well familiar with the Coast Guard required sticker you have on your boat that essentially says you can't throw any trash or allow any oil substance to get in the water. The trash part is easy. The oil part is hard. But we have a solution and it is called BioSock. Belle Maer is going to require that everyone in the harbor install this product in the bilge of their boat. You can get it at the office or at the gas dock. It is something you only have to do once every season. Your reward is that you will know that you have done your part to help keep the lake clean. That, and if the Coast Guard or an MDNR enforcement officer stops you and inspects your boat, you can show them you have done your part. Additionally, if your bilge ever pumps out, you will have the peace of mind that your water was clean and you aren't the one looking at a fine.
Marc Howard
General Partner
Belle Maer Harbor
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The BioSok was purchased for use in a former 44' motor life boat (ex-US Coast guard) now owned and operated by Sea Scout Ship CITY OF ROSES #601, of Portland, OR. The BioSok is still in use. We have been getting excessive amounts of water in the engine room through the port propeller shaft stuffing tube. That has been adjusted and now the amount of water is very small. We had the BioSok in the engine room bilges before this recent adjustment. The BioSok has done a good job of capturing oil in the bilge water, and with the reduction in the amount of engine bilge water that the adjustment to the stuffing tube yields, and BioSok should do even better. We do not pump any bilge water over the side, but rather pump it in to buckets and take it ashore. I would expect that, with our current situation, we will only have to do that a couple of time per season. We are pleased with the reduced oil content in the bilge water that we have off loaded recently, and attribute this to the use of the BioSok.
Pat Kelley
Committee Chairman
SSS CITY OF ROSES #601
See our website at www.sss601.org
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| Your BioSok has worked very well in my sloop's bilge. I heartily recommend its use. It has minimized odor while keeping a clean bilge. I plan to stick with this product. R. B. McClinton |
| ABS Certificate of Design Assignment Dec 7, 2004 |
| New York State DEC Letter May 17, 1995 |
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