Should we allow Personal Water Craft (PWC aka "JetSkis") on lake Whatcom?

Every year marine two-stroke motors (which are used on most PWCs) spill 15 times more oil and fuel into waterways than did the Exxon Valdez.

25% percent of the fuel and required oil that conventional two-strokes use, most of it unburned, is emitted directly into the water and air.

Methyl tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE) is a fuel additive that is a major water pollution source (mainly because it moves farther and faster than others). It is considered a possible carcinogenic and contains  tertiary butyl-alcohol (TBA) and formaldehyde . TBA is listed as "harmful or fatal if swallowed" by the EPA. One jetski dumps one-tenth of a gallon (a soda can) of MTBE into the water in two hours--enough to contaminate 13 million gallons of drinking water, or the amount consumed daily by a population of 90,000--with 5 ppb of MTBE.

Remember Lake Whatcom is the source of Bellingham's drinking water!

For more info on PWC's see Bluewater Network  
TOP TEN MYTHS about PWC 
Crystal Clean and Quiet - Reference Library - lots of details on a campaign to ban PWCs