Environmental whackjobs and vicious dogs capped a great car wash

[dan46n2]

No its not. You can dump your waste water on the ground or you can dump it down a sanitary sewer (e.g pour it into a toilet).



He made an explict choice to dump commercial wastewater into a storm drain which is untreated rather than a sanitary drain which is treated.



If you aren't comfortable pouring your wastewater on the ground, then why are you dumping it into a storm drain? Out of sight, out of mind?







Car wash soaps and related surfactants are hardly mild.



The issue isn't the mild soap per se (although that's an issue too) its all the crap carried along with the "mild" soap as well as the interactions of that "mild" soap with other components in the waste water.



Car wash effluent can be very "strong" and isn't the sort of thing that should be dumped into storm sewers.

I'm talking about after you wash the car with a soapy mitt then hose it down, that water will be washed into the storm drain next time it rains.

 

[GoudyL]

I think we can find fault in the behavior of both parties. While I would tend to side with HydroMan on rubbing it in the face of the smug enviro, as someone else already said, two wrongs don't make a right.

I go with the enviro, but not for the reason he stated. The issue IMHO is not so much pollution, but the dumping of commercial waste in the storm sewers.



Although, depending on what you are doing, car wash effluent can be quite filthy, e.g from cleaning wheels or engine cleaning. Carwashes are not preferred customers for waste treatment plants, due to their tendancy to produce salty, gritty, oily and/or soapy sewage.



The situation we are talking about is not really so different from some business owner deciding that trash collection is too expensive, and thefore he dumps his trash in a school parking lot.



Of course he see's no problem with doing that, since it solves his trash disposal problem, and every time he shows up to dump more trash, his old trash has vanished, leaving plenty of room for new trash.

 

[MarcHarris]

only real funny part comes from the prius being one of the worst vehicles for the environment due to how it's made (battery technology)

 

[EcoAutoCT]

:funnypost



Love that episode! I refer to that car as a Pious because that's how the owners act.

I'll keep my opinion to myself on the rest of this thread, but I haven't heard that one before :spit:

 

[TortoiseAWD]

I think this thread has spiraled downhill enough to be locked. A reminder: Ad hominem attacks are frowned upon. If you care to disagree with another poster, do so politely, without insults, and without vitriol.



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