In their long, hard campaign against development of an offshore wind farm, defenders of Nantucket Sound have often characterized their beloved water body as "pristine." Former governor Mitt Romney dubbed the sound a "national treasure."

But the ferry boat operators who are among the leading opponents of the wind farm in Nantucket Sound have been flushing their toilets in it.

Nantucket Sound serves as a veritable outhouse for the 3 million people who take ferries back and forth from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket every year. The Steamship Authority treats the waste before dumping it, but Hy-Line Cruises does not.

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