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Originally Posted by slicknickis3
So when it rains what happens to that water? Goes the same place wash water does. Do these oils and brake dusts only come off when professional detailers wash cars? Obviously the simple answer is 'no'.
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Ha ha, this reminds me of another thread about this a few years ago when Scottwax said "well, then they'd better outlaw rain, too". It does seem like a bit of a crock, when the percentage of cars that are washed outside is such a small percentage (vs. never washed and tunnel washed), compared to all the oil drips, antifreeze drips, gasoline drips, brake dust, and tire dust that is deposited on the roads by all traffic that gets washed into the storm drains when it rains.
California has always been a little nuts about this, perhaps rightly so since much of the heavily populated areas were desert that have been irrigated for habitability, and therefore are more likely to have runoff rather than "sink in", but I guess in other places...the argument "but it's only one car!" doesn't really work because the converse is saying it's ok to feed wheel cleaner to fish...it's not the amount, it's the principal. Kind of like saying to a cop after you got stopped for speeding "but I was only a few MPH over the limit"...either you are speeding or not.
That being said, I don't want a ticket for just a few MPH over the limit or a ticket for washing my car in the driveway.
EDIT: I guess the most ridiculous example of this here in the northeast is what I was reading in the paper about de-icing salt on the roads for this past winter. A year or two ago the town came around and put little stickers on all the storm drains with a drawing of a fish and "this drains directly to rivers and lakes" or something like that...and then they go and put down hundreds of thousands of TONS of salt on the roads here in the area. I dunno, maybe the fish they show on that sticker is a salt-water fish...