Is Filtering necessary in Your State?

All states have Federal Guide lines though some do not enforce them.

Here in California, we HAVE TO COMPLY with Local, State and Federal Guidelines. The Federal Guideline being the least restrictive.

Here is just 15% of what we have to filter by law.

Here is only 15% of what we are responsible for filtering out in a Parking Garage Cleaning that is required by the EPA, SWQRCB, CCCSD, Lake Tahoe limits are even stricter, MUCH STRICTURE.

Metals:

Antimony, Arsenic, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, selenium, Silver, Thallium, Zinc.

Oil and Grease limits is 300 mg/l

Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Chemical Oxygen demand
Total suspended Solids
PH LIMIT (5.5 to 12.4) This is sometime hard to reach due to the amount of oil or detergent you use and or pick up.

The list requirements goes on from:

Haloethers to Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons

FROM.... Base-Neutrals / Acids ( about 48 of them ).....TO... Volatile Organics


Fines in California are as high as $10,000 per incident and 1,000 per gallon of Grey Water that seeps into the underground drinking supply.

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Ashley Phillips said:

Is Filtering necessary in Your State?

Only for the Moonshine and Wine. jk

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Naw, we smoke camels.

good one guys!!

This is what Maryland EPA said, almost word for word

"when your driving on the 495 Beltway at over the posted speed limit, you go about it with not much concern, until a state trooper pulls you over, every one is not going to get caught all the time"

Then he went on to say the best thing you can do is somehow prevent the water from entering the storm drain. Then he forwarded me a list of all the Maryland public sewer plants contact info and said check with them on their individual grey water requirements.

Called the largest one in the state and the engineer sent the attached doc. I posted above, and said "since your industry is not a significant contributer to the sanitary sewer system your operations ""is not really"" required to obtain a permit for wash water admittance to the public system, but if you are dealing with heavy grease and oil, use some rudimentary oil water separator prior to discharge to the sanitary sewer and you should be fine. Just try and prevent it form entering the storm drain.