Besides the soap runoff problem - they also waste water. My city has banned these for many years now....Soooo..the city is getting a kickback from the car washes in the area, right? Or haven’t you looked into that? Somebody pays for the water, the the soap is, by regulation, biodegradable and what is the problem?
My local Stage 2 Water restrictions.
http://www.saws.org/conservation/droughtrestrictions/StageTwo.cfm
Look up “run off” and figure out how it is a source of pollutants to rivers, and creeks, and why that might possible harm valuable wildlife and impact the local economy.
Its always a generous small business that pays for the water..I know they are evil in the mind of the left and these events show that we need more centralized control of water
“... they also waste water...”
Right. We can’t have that, what with water being a non-renewable resource and all. /s
“Besides the soap runoff problem - they also waste water. My city has banned these for many years now....Soooo..the city is getting a kickback from the car washes in the area, right? Or haven’t you looked into that? Somebody pays for the water, the the soap is, by regulation, biodegradable and what is the problem?”
Biodegradable doesn’t matter to EPA, it’s still a “pollutant”. Even rocks and heat are pollutants in their regulation. Anything you can put into a stream is illegal except pure water, and then the water has to be the same temperature as the stream, or you have violated the law. You can look it up.
Car washes are illegal everywhere, including your own car in your own paved driveway, if the water runs into a storm drain. EPA can arrest anyone who violates the rule, anytime they feel like it. They just don’t feel like it right now. But wait, they will.
Oh, and those commercial car washes? If they are done by the EPA book, they have to recycle and re-use their wash water, plus any waste water has to be clean or they have to pay to dump it into the sanitary sewer, a very expensive process. If there is a car wash near you that is not following these rules, they just have not been located and fined by the EPA yet.
Whaddaya think this is, a free country??