Posted on 07/10/2009 12:34:32 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
SEATTLE – It's one of the great American summer pastimes: Pulling the car onto the driveway on a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon, lathering it up with soap, rinsing it off and watching the sudsy water flow toward the storm drain.
Now, officials in Washington and elsewhere are telling residents to either take that old ride to the car wash, or hold the soap and wash the car over gravel or grass to filter the dirty water.
The officials are trying to prevent the runoff, with all of its soap, grim and metals from the car, from reaching rivers and streams and harming the fish and other aquatic life in them.
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When detergent is criminalized...
When they pry the hose from my cold dead fingers.
I am wracking my brain trying to think of any Prius I have seen with dirt on it.
Nope.
It just isn’t there.
Read an article somewhere that stated that the sodium and potassium in detergents is good for plant life.
By most accounts, that's exactly what happened to David Carradine.
Already is. I know someone that makes a profit by buying dish and laundry soap in Idaho and reselling it in Washington.
Washington has outlawed dish and laundry soaps that aren’t Eco friendly. The Eco friendly crap works crappy.
Could be just Spokane, not sure if it’s the whole State or not.
Guess what, FReepers, you bath soap is probably next on the list, and dish soap, and on and on........
Spokane now...the whole state is following next year. Need to start stocking up- the parents already have.
What's "grim"? I don't think I've ever had "grim" on my car, but I could be mistaken...same goes for "metals"...what's "metals"?
FMCDH(BITS)
Most fertilizers have a NPK content. Nitrogen, phosphoros and potassium. Over fertilization does more damage than anything soap can do. Didn’t the doogooders wash with soap, the animals in Valdez, Alaska after the Exxon takner boo booed?
Dawn dish soap. Great stuff. It will work on skunk spray, too, if you get to it quickly enough.
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“Read an article somewhere that stated that the sodium and potassium in detergents is good for plant life.”
You may be thinking phosphate.
You are right, it is very good for plant life. So good in fact that the plant life can bloom and kill the fish.
Although I understand their concerns, nutrient run off is actually very bad for water ways, I think they should identify problem areas and address them rather than pass more onerous government mandates.
American citizens must IGNORE the lunacy of these leftist political hacks.
Is this for real?
People are unemployed,losing their homes,families are falling apart and the Government is worried about soapy water getting to a river?
The Government of America has lost it. They are so far removed fromreality as to not even be funny anymore.....
The greenest and healthiest part of our lawn is where the gray water runs onto.
You've never been to Ohio, have you.
Now that's grim.
Growing up, we wouldn’t use well water to wash the car,
just drove it down to the branch and washed it right there
in the creek. That’s where we took baths too. Does this make me a criminal?
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