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No driveway car "wash" in Washington State

by World_Groove | September 29, 2008 at 07:00 pm | 224 views | 8 comments | 14 recommendations

Better get ready to buy a new Atlas, as the Pacific Northwest renames one of it's own "Ington State".

It's a darn good thing I like keeping my truck in a tip top redneck "dirty" state.... otherwise I would be concerned !!!

Along with wild salmon and steelhead trout, the Pacific Northwest soon may have another endangered species — the driveway carwash.
Washing your car or boat in the driveway or street is a residential ritual as American as backyard barbecues. But the state of Washington is telling its local governments they must prohibit home car washing unless residents divert the wash water away from storm drains, where they say it causes water pollution.

Washington just recently banned Phosphates from all dishwasher detergent in several counties and left consumers with no options on the shelves except two non working enviornmentaly friendly brands which cost 4 times that of normal detergent. (The shelves where actually empty in my area of "all" options for 3 weeks after the law went into effect).

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panzerlawyer

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at 21:15 on September 29th, 2008

World_Groove, you always get the most bad ass stories man!

Paschen

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at 23:05 on September 29th, 2008

Nice Picture.

rytmitz (not verified)

at 20:52 on October 15th, 2008

yup..got enjoy this one....

eastvanray

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at 11:43 on September 30th, 2008

World_Groove, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I see no problem with this as it tries to improve water quality and costs NOTHING for home owners to comply.

World_Groove

at 15:09 on September 30th, 2008

For the most part I do not see a problem with either, Water quality is a very important issue.

What I personally find somewhat concerning is that it is an additional expense passed directly to all citizens and a freedom of action taken away. Thats another $5 a week citizens will have to shell out to keep their cars clean, about $250 a year for one wash a week at typical car wash rates. I know what immediately pops into most minds is "clean environment = priceless" but maybe the better thought would have been to re rout all drain water to treatment plants, as all street runoff regardless of "car washes" will have these same toxins and pollution in it regardless.

eastvanray

at 20:09 on September 30th, 2008

I must have missed something. How does washing your car on your lawn add $5/week to the cost?

World_Groove

at 20:45 on September 30th, 2008

I guess the point is, if it is toxic pollution that is coming off of our cars then we would not want it on our lawns leaching into our soil and then into our groundwater either ?(if lawn washing was even an option for more than 20% of people). The better option would have been treatment of all storm drain water.