1st Choice Pressure Washing and Roof Cleaning Report post Posted April 23, 2016 When it comes to fleet washing, do you guys have to worry about runoff as far as a legal issue? Was wondering about that and is there any info out there for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greg755 Report post Posted April 23, 2016 Run off is run off. If you are in a commercial area or a parking lot with storm drains you need to contain it just as if you were cleaning a parking lot... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1st Choice Pressure Washing and Roof Cleaning Report post Posted April 23, 2016 Run off is run off. If you are in a commercial area or a parking lot with storm drains you need to contain it just as if you were cleaning a parking lot... Gotcha, how would you contain it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greg755 Report post Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) There is a couple of videos on youtube that show how to do this. Just google EPA pressure washing or pressure washer water containment or reclamation. There is a guy from one of the pressure wash suppliers that did like a 10 part series on you tube about EPA guidelines. Basically sand bag tubes and vacuum/filters. You are trying to keep it out of the storm drains (whether you use chemicals or not) and out of any water source like a pond/ lake or stream... So basically the sand bags create a dam to channel the water to your vacuum so you can pick it up. Then you either have to process it and filter it your self or take it to a processing center. There are all kinds of rules and exemptions that vary from state to state and town to town. For the most part the EPA rules are what everyone copies. Edited April 25, 2016 by Greg755 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
