First thing thats need to be said here is that this does not apply in circumstances such as Fleet-washing or heavy contaminates known on a surface.
Lets dispel this problem right out of the gate.
Distributors took the fleet-wash guidelines and applied them to everything.
Its pretty simple when your washing a vehicle your not violating the storm water act your just flat polluting the property that your washing the vehicle on. Think about this, if you open your window and throw a bag of trash out on the ground you polluting. Why would you think washing a dirt off a car onto the ground wasn't? ( I hope your Following)
Now when cleaning a Sidewalk are you adding something to your wash thats considered contaminates? Soap, any kind can be considered a pollutant. So if your adding a soap to the wash your polluting.
Now if your just using regular water to wash a walkway from contaminates that are already existing and your not going to Enter waters of the US they in most cities and counties your ok.
You see this pollution is already on property, this pollution now can be reduced by proper methods.
Do you need a Vacuum to reduce these contaminate? No you do not need a vacuum to reduce pollution in this situation. Can a Vacuum be used? Yes there is nothing wrong with using a vacuum in this circumstance. However picking the water can create more problems staying compliant. I know this sounds a bit crazy, once you have received the water, another words you have pumped it into your tanks most laws will tell you that now you need a proper facility to dump. The water in your tanks are now contaminated from possible other wash water you have had and if you dump onsite your possibly cross contaminating. Proper disposal will be required by the laws of your own city,county and State. Hauling the water might even be illegal.
Here are some simple and more practical methods.
Sweeping the large existing debris up before we wash.
Berms diverting water to a retention area.
Filters reducing the existing pollution in the water.
Oil Socks removing the already known oils from parking spaces.
Curb barriers that the already existing contaminates run through and self clean.
All of these above methods reduce the pollution's that is already existing on the property.
At the end of the day we reduce owners liability without creating others such as hauling hazardous materials off there property. We didn't put them at risk by cross contamination with our dirty wash water from that nuclear power plant we just washed earlier that day.
These private property owners want to keep containment.
This is very important as you will use this word now when your asked about your process.
Its pretty simple when you think about it, no one wants something going off there property and polluting or hurting anyone else.
Lets dispel this problem right out of the gate.
Distributors took the fleet-wash guidelines and applied them to everything.
Its pretty simple when your washing a vehicle your not violating the storm water act your just flat polluting the property that your washing the vehicle on. Think about this, if you open your window and throw a bag of trash out on the ground you polluting. Why would you think washing a dirt off a car onto the ground wasn't? ( I hope your Following)
Now when cleaning a Sidewalk are you adding something to your wash thats considered contaminates? Soap, any kind can be considered a pollutant. So if your adding a soap to the wash your polluting.
Now if your just using regular water to wash a walkway from contaminates that are already existing and your not going to Enter waters of the US they in most cities and counties your ok.
You see this pollution is already on property, this pollution now can be reduced by proper methods.
Do you need a Vacuum to reduce these contaminate? No you do not need a vacuum to reduce pollution in this situation. Can a Vacuum be used? Yes there is nothing wrong with using a vacuum in this circumstance. However picking the water can create more problems staying compliant. I know this sounds a bit crazy, once you have received the water, another words you have pumped it into your tanks most laws will tell you that now you need a proper facility to dump. The water in your tanks are now contaminated from possible other wash water you have had and if you dump onsite your possibly cross contaminating. Proper disposal will be required by the laws of your own city,county and State. Hauling the water might even be illegal.
Here are some simple and more practical methods.
Sweeping the large existing debris up before we wash.
Berms diverting water to a retention area.
Filters reducing the existing pollution in the water.
Oil Socks removing the already known oils from parking spaces.
Curb barriers that the already existing contaminates run through and self clean.
All of these above methods reduce the pollution's that is already existing on the property.
At the end of the day we reduce owners liability without creating others such as hauling hazardous materials off there property. We didn't put them at risk by cross contamination with our dirty wash water from that nuclear power plant we just washed earlier that day.
These private property owners want to keep containment.
This is very important as you will use this word now when your asked about your process.
Its pretty simple when you think about it, no one wants something going off there property and polluting or hurting anyone else.
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