@tnunez66 @steve’s advice is spot on and balanced. Listen to his advice on this.
Everything is biodegradable. Your windshield in your truck will degrade in 1 million years.
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Steve gives great advice no doubt. But repeating the sales mantra nothing but rain down the drain isn’t helpful. Jordie is a window washer and a kinda vendor. Maybe not the best to take advice from. Research and arm yourself with legitimate facts, not ramblings from a bunch of us on the internet. Remember my earlier advice, believe 10% of what you read on the internet.
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Best advice anyone can give really. If you aren’t doing your own research, we don’t want to hear the bitching if you get caught and fined. (not directed at anyone in particular, just a general statement)
Once I get any information here from M.U.D. I’ll post what they say. Maybe that’ll help formulate some questions to your local governing body.
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Usually not Fish and Game doing the enforcement on that, at least in my area. There have been massive fines handed down by the feds and state EPA but usually those are huge cases like cleaning a parking garage and having all the runoff wind up in a city park pond. Stuff like that. Haven’t ever heard of anybody getting a huge fine for doing residential.
I’ve seen his videos when he’s doing dumpster pads and Wendy’s drive thrus so I wouldn’t say he’s just a window washer. That’s actually what got me on this topic. I thought if I could do that kind of work I would kill it. But then I looked into the CWA and local regulations and realized that I could never clean up all of that volume from my little 4x6 trailer
Lol, John Lange makes videos too. Glean what you can I guess.
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List of things for basic wastewater control:
Sand booms
Sand
Zip ties
Rubber mats 2x2
Filter Screens
Sump pump or sludge pump.
Discharge hose
Most stuff you can find at powerwash.com
Reclaim is a beast to do by yourself. But the items listed could fit on your trailer if you organize efficiently.
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It is a pain. If i lived in CA, I wouldn’t even try doing commercial flat work. But you definitely can managethe residential run off easier, as Steve outlined.
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So glad around here most businesses have discharge retention ponds built in with the property. Rarely, do I ever have to worry about water discharge and waterways. Simple water berms and a water transfer pump with a couple of hoses is the most basic reclaim you can do for less than $150. Re-divert waste water to landscape if possible. If no other option, pump sucks it up into a tank and then go to an authorized dump station and pay the fee to dump it. If you have to do this all the time, then get your own filtering set-up, be compliant with regulations, filter and dump accordingly.
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