Hi, Guest
Hah, I'm being paged! ;) :lol:
It's about being smart about it, but as other threads are saying... car washers are far from the big offenders that they actually ought to be targetting.
What about coin-op car wash bays? Do their drains end up in the treated "sanitary" lines, as my Works-employed brother-in-law calls the sewer system? I'd hope so.
What if you were to tie a drain in a new home driveway into the sanitary line? Won't fly. Too much load from many driveways via rainwater, etc.
Indoor drains, aka drain-in-garage? Same deal, little less load. besides, who wants to plastic their garage interior so they can wash the car and have the grey water end up in the treated lines? Besides mud wrestler strippers with the day off, of course. ;) I'm sure they could start their own chain of "enviro-friendly" car-washing* establishments.
So what's a guy to do? More biodegradable soap is a good start. What about basic scrubbers on storm drains? Changeable large cartridges on mains?
Or, as noted, ban salt from the roadways. More silt via sand/composite being dropped ought to be less harmful to the environment than salt, but there's the chance that increased sand being used will clog the drains as sludge/sediment, akin to putting coffee grounds down the sink.
There's no easy solution, but non-biodegradable fish warning us about soap isn't the best start. Neither is inadvertently asking us all to drive dirty cars.
* replace "washing" with "rubbing themselves along your vehicle while soaking wet" :lol:
It's about being smart about it, but as other threads are saying... car washers are far from the big offenders that they actually ought to be targetting.
What about coin-op car wash bays? Do their drains end up in the treated "sanitary" lines, as my Works-employed brother-in-law calls the sewer system? I'd hope so.
What if you were to tie a drain in a new home driveway into the sanitary line? Won't fly. Too much load from many driveways via rainwater, etc.
Indoor drains, aka drain-in-garage? Same deal, little less load. besides, who wants to plastic their garage interior so they can wash the car and have the grey water end up in the treated lines? Besides mud wrestler strippers with the day off, of course. ;) I'm sure they could start their own chain of "enviro-friendly" car-washing* establishments.
So what's a guy to do? More biodegradable soap is a good start. What about basic scrubbers on storm drains? Changeable large cartridges on mains?
Or, as noted, ban salt from the roadways. More silt via sand/composite being dropped ought to be less harmful to the environment than salt, but there's the chance that increased sand being used will clog the drains as sludge/sediment, akin to putting coffee grounds down the sink.
There's no easy solution, but non-biodegradable fish warning us about soap isn't the best start. Neither is inadvertently asking us all to drive dirty cars.
* replace "washing" with "rubbing themselves along your vehicle while soaking wet" :lol:
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.