Pacific Ballast Water Group

Past Meetings

Testing of Ballast Water Treatment Systems Workshop, June 14-15, 2005

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Final Report (PDF):

Workshop Report on Testing of Ballast Water Treatment Systems: General Guidelines and Step-wise Strategy Toward Shipboard Testing (June 2006)

Recent News

CSLC Technology Assessment Update (October 2009)

Coast Guard considers new rules to regulate ballast; takes up where Congress left off – Great Lakes Echo (October 2009)

Slimy-skinned ships to slip smoothly through the seas (September 2009)

Bill introduced to implement Anti-Fouling Convention – Clean Hull Act of 2009 (H.R. 3618) (Septmeber 2009)

Proposed Ballast Water Discharge Standard Rulemaking White Paper, USCG (September 2009)

Standards for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters; Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (September 2009)

IMO News Issue 2, 2009

U.S. Navy Developing Sustainable Biocide To Keep Barnacles At Bay – Green Diary (August 2009)

Funding Secured For World’s Only Fresh Water Ballast Treatment Facility (August 2009)

Research from San Francisco Bay: The role of containerships as transfer mechanisms of marine biofouling species (July 2009)

Archived News