Also your hydrochem chemicals are environmentally safe,with a near neutral ph when used properly ,maybe take your MDS sheets to the water authority for further investigation.
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I talked with Chad to make 100% sure. This is what I added in my email to the local company:
I spoke with Reuel Anderson who is the Compliance Supervisor at the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality - Water Quality Division. I explained to him what I had planned on doing and he assured me that I would be in compliance with the 1972 Clean Water Act.
The most common method of compliance with the CWA is to prevent process wastewater discharges to waters of the United States. If your discharge does not reach waters of the United States, then there are no requirements under the CWA. Examples of compliance without a discharge are vacuuming up the process wastewater or berming the process water and allowing it to evaporate. An additional method of compliance is to discharge the water to an NPDES permitted sanitary sewer system (the municipality may have additional pretreatment requirements before accepting your discharge). The most common form of non-compliance is to discharge the process water into a storm sewer system or into a city street that drains to a storm water inlet. Most storm drainage systems in Region 6 discharge directly to waters of the United States without treatment, which means anything that discharges into a storm drain is the same as putting it directly into the waterbody receiving the storm drain discharge.
Vehicle Washing
Washing vehicles is an example of a process water discharge of pollutants requiring an NPDES permit if it reaches waters of the United States. EPA recommends that companies or individuals take their vehicles to car washes*. If a car wash is not available, NPDES permit requirements may be avoided and impacts on waters of the United States minimized if vehicles are washed in a vegetated or grassy area where the wash water will be absorbed into the ground instead of allowing it to run into the street and then into a storm drain.
Below is how I would be compliant:
If awarded the contract to clean your trucks I would recommend we clean behind the building because I am able to be compliant due to us discharging to vegetation.
If I need to clean the vehicles in front of your building I would dam off the storm drains that discharges to local streams. Pump water thru a filtering system and then discharge to vegetation as well as letting it evaporate.
How many units ?
I only stopped there because I was at the other end of the building giving a guy a quote that contacted me. He only had 6 of those sprinter vans. Told him Iād do them for $12 a piece (he only wanted to do monthly) but I had a minimum charge of $125 to come out and clean. So I told him to get 4 more and he can get the same price as his 6. He said he still wanted me to clean and that he would email me, we shall see.
Thatās cheap,but besides the point. If you have to reclaim, Iād say have a good day,but if you can discharge out back and be legal thats still cheap on prices,but doable, thatās a lot of water to haul away. Just ask @dperez,I remember him talking about this very situation
The $125 is for 6 vans from another company. Not the ones pictured, never gave pricing on that bid. I did a completely different bid on all those trucks. In short, monthly will bring in $15k a year, bi-weekly will bring in roughly $25k a year and weekly will be around $48k
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Donāt know if you knew this or not @GeorgeNicholson ,I just found out myself, but hydrochem is also a Landa dealer.
Did not know that
PSA for anyone thinking about getting a two step system: pieces will break. Iām assuming due to the high concentration. A few weeks ago the ball valve cracked and I had to replace that. Today the injector snapped
To fix it you have to unscrew the barb from an adjustable Adams injector and use a 1/4" connector.
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Side note just washed my 1000th unit for the year tonight! @dperez probably has me beat by about 5 months but Iāll get there.
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Couldnāt find the post when someone was talking about man-hours over how long it would take on a particular truck.
So to recap, my son and I were able to clean a straight truck in 8:32, this was just him on hose management and swapping soaps with the ball valve. So today I wanted to see how long it would take me to do all of it by myself. To clean one truck it took 9:45. Since I never just clean one truck at a time I wanted to see how long it would take me to clean 2 trucks and I was able to finish in 14:55.
I usually donāt clean 2 trucks completely at a time, I usually clean one whole truck and the truck next to it I get the side and front. Once I finish all that I finish the last side of the second truck and do the next one completely. I have found that to be most effective in efficiency.
We finished 11 straight trucks in 2:45, but would have been 20-30 minutes sooner if we didnāt have to move to the other side of the building to clean the remaining 4 trucks and we were having to move around a semi and trailer that was waiting on getting loaded up. And we have to go back tomorrow to clean another 5 or 6 trucks that are coming in from the other side of the state and another from Kansas City.
Early this evening we go and knock out Ferrellgas. I tried to get them to go bi-weekly but they are unwilling to do so right now and they end up being a pain in the ā ā ā to clean.
So Iām assuming you got your machine and ratios all dialed in @GeorgeNicholson ? Not bad time on straight trucks Iām assuming, Iāve never washed lil stuff. The best we can do on a 70ā tractor trailer with sleeper ,one machine, is 30 minutes. 2 machines almost cuts it in half.
I have yet to get to wash a tractor and 53ā trailer. I will have a day cab and a 45ā today that carries propane tanks. Iāll have to time myself on those, but they are dirty as hell and may have to brush.
As far as chems dialed in, I think I do. There are instances where itās not cutting the film though and itās just random as hell though. I had one truck today that was filthy, easy as hell with two stepping. Then move to another truck and itās dirty but only half as dirty as the other and we had to brush. Made zero sense.
I thought about going with Fleet Prep or M-37 for my first step and then trying Film Fighter or Fleet Brite as my second step. Since I am not worried about polished aluminum I want the most aggressive stuff I can use (without HF).
Did you switch to the gp high draw,and how many feet of hose you running?
Iām using my highdraw that I got from my supplier here. Ordering the GP as a backup (actually 2 of them) and I run 100ā. I am really thinking of building that two step gun or just buying one. The added psi when applying the soaps has to do wonders.
Have you tried these soaps? Fleet Prep or M-37 for my first step and Film Fighter or Fleet Brite for second step? Would you swap out the Supersonic and Dynaclean & Brite for any of those if 90% of the trucks you do is straight trucks and propane tankers?
From what research Iāve done and information from @pressureguy, itās like 2 stepping with HF but not the worries, and a little faster. I just donāt like the 2000,1800 psi all the time. I know I can adjust the psi via unloader,but thatās a pain,and I donāt trust anyone else on my crew to dickey doo with thatā¦
Nope ,but @pressureguy has,he used to run m37 and film fighter before he got his 2 step gun I believe. I run my super sonic and dyna clean and it comes out perfectly brushless, if itās a truck I havenāt done and not polished, Iāll run HF then dyna clean,then wash it next time with super and dyna. Polished trucks are a different animal. I gotta use citric acid and pro wash. Sometimes I have to brush,here and there
Yeah I used m37 and FF for a while, then tried Supersonic and Dynaclean. Now Iām using Supersonic and FF. I think itās a good combo but FF is a good bit more expensive than Dynaclean.
