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Originally Posted by TortoiseAWD

Water from your washing machine is discharged into the sanitary sewer and heads off to a treatment plant before it's discharged back into a river/lake/stream. Water that goes into the storm drains typically isn't treated before it's returned to a natural source (again, lake/river/stream/etc.)

Sanitary sewer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Storm drain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tort

Hmm. That is interesting. Is every system set up this way?