Cooperating Clean Marinas

Helping the environment can be as simple as choosing a marina. Whether you are looking for a new home for your boat or just selecting a destination for a weekend cruise, giving your business to certified Clean Marinas supports these businesses who have voluntarily adopted environmentally friendly practices at their marinas. 23 states now have Clean Marina programs that work with marinas to help them minimize their environmental impacts. For a boater, this can mean clean, well-lit bathrooms, shoreside laundry facilities, more grassy areas, convenient pumpout stations, plenty of trash cans and recycling bins and many other amenities that not only help keep the waterway clean, they make your time at the marina more pleasant.

Clean Marina programs are voluntary programs run by many states in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). These voluntary programs encourage marina operators and recreational boaters to protect the boating environment by practicing environmentally sound operating and maintenance procedures. Additional information on Clean Marinas is available at:

• http://cleanmarinas.noaa.gov/
• http://www.epa.gov/owow/NPS/MMGI/Chapter5/ch5-3d.html.

P.O.S.P.E.T.

The Pacific Oil Spill Prevention Education Team has served as a forum for exchanging information and outreach ideas about prevention of oil spills and other boater best management practices while providing boat and marina operators with a consistent and accurate pollution prevention messages. POSPET members include representatives from state and federal agencies, industry associations, and nonprofit groups from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California.

To find a clean marina near you select a state from the list below.

North Carolina

• http://dcm2.enr.state.nc.us/marinas/clean.htm

 

New Jersey

• http://www.njcleanmarina.org/

Ohio

• http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/cleanmarinas/

Oregon

• http://www.oregon.gov/OSMB/Clean/Pages/clean_marina.aspx

 

Rhode Island

• http://www.crmc.state.ri.us/marinas.html

 

South Carolina

• http://www.scdhec.gov/environment/ocrm/clean_marina.htm

Tennessee

• http://www.tva.com/environment/water/marinas.htm

 

Texas

• http://www.cleanmarinas.org/certified-marinas.htm

Virginia

• http://web.vims.edu/adv/cleanmarina/cleanmarinas.htm

 

Washington

• http://www.cleanmarinawashington.org/