Car Wash Mats

Meanwhile, large corporations like PB are allowed to dump tons and tons of ammonia, mercury and heavy metal sludge into southern lake Michigan. Crazy isn't it?
 
Pureshine said:
Its always been that way just most detailers don't follow it. King county will fine and even may shut you down if they find out your dumping water from detailing.
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I should have been my explicit in my question...it was the cost of the fine that surprised me. But then, at my age...nothing surprises me anymore-LOL.

Quickie story...about 25-30 years ago in Snohomish county, Scriber Creek was a thriving salmon steam, whomever started building without using any sort of blocking devices to stop the building runoff. Long story short, when we left the area (2005) the salmon were just again starting to come back.

Point being, what we do today can take 'forever' to get back to where we started 'then'.

Bill
 
RonG said:
yea that whole nothing but rain down the drain is crap...
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When it runs into 'the lakes' and that is where your drinking water comes from, you do become aware of what does go down the street.

Bill
 
I'm curious to know what sort of water pump or vacuum you would use to collect the waste water after you wash the vehicle? I imagine if you use a wet vac with the car wash solution getting sucked up your going to end up with a vacuum full of suds very quickly.
 
Seems like a lot of guys use sand socks around vehicle to contain water then vacuum and dump in grass . I'm in Florida and know locally this is there recommendations. A wet/dry vac seems to work fine without any foaming issues from soap . Definitely the cheapest route but would check local requirements.
 
You could use a solenoid float switch hooked up to your shop vac

When the water lifts the float, the solenoid turns on the shop vac

Should work just like a bilge pump on a boat, which you could also use, but they run on 12v systems and you would have to connect it to a car battery

Just an idea
 
Bad thing with shop vacs is what do you do with the water after it's full? Also a lot of soaps seem to foam up with vacs. You can use a deformer. We have a 38hp steel eagle vac that we use for picking up waste water. It pumps to a containment tank. For truck washing we use a utility pump. Turns on and off automatically
 
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