As cruise ship visitation has increased, so have water-quality violations, state officials told lawmakers last week.
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation representatives presented a summary of this data on Thursday to the environmental subcommittee of the House Finance Committee. In addition to tracking the raw numbers, it shows a contrast in the number of violations — also known as “exceedances” — between the time when onboard observers called “ocean rangers” monitored wastewater discharges and the…