Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
If you think the election tomorrow is important, there is another election that is right under out nose that has more potential to destroy your business than any outcome tomorrow.
What election is this that is so important? It is your election whether or not to joing the PWNA and provide more funds with your dues so that they can continue their assault on you.
I will summarize the Jim Gamble section of the latest cleaner times article on "Government Regulations and provide snippets of his interview for clarification.
The PWNA reports that they have spoken to near 500 regulators in the past twelve months presenting Robert Hinderliter's one-man BMP's that he authored alone while rejecting suggestions from the industry as a whole. These are the same BMP's that he promised on multiple boards would not be "shopped" to the regulators. Now they are apparently proud that they have "presented" to 500 regulators without......."shopping"....as if there is a difference.
It wasn't good enough that Robert was the originator or the myth of "nothing down the dr$in but rain". A couple of years ago the oldest reference to that phrase on the entire internet was from Robert's writings in the early 1990's. ...No apparently that assault on our industry wasn't enough to open up the floodgates of sales of reclaim equipment. Another step was needed.
Step two, the PWNA "BMP's" that are now being pushed on regulators around the country. The EPA, on it's own website to this day promote bmp's that allow for cleaning water that has no soap introduced to go in the storm drain after a sediment filter. But that will not sell enough equipment, nor shore up the accounts of those who have chosen to bet the farm on that equipment by going deep into debt buying it. So Robert came in with step 2, where, in spite of our pleas to remove any reference to hot water, Robert got around the EPA's opening that allowed us to put sediment filtered cleaning water without soap down the storm drain by introducing a foreign concept to the regulators, that being the concept that water that is "hot" is an emulsifier and is just as bad or worse than soap. This was a concept the EPA never envisioned till our fearless leader, Robert Hinderliter got in front of them and powerpointed them into a coma till they accepted it.
You'd think that would be enough. How much more could one man do to heap regulations on us that previously didn't exist? Well, that brings us to step three. Robert brings in a newcomer in Jim Gamble. The same man who told us "one drop of caustic will kill all the wildlife in the sewer" ......wildlife? .....in the sewer??..... I don't need to go on with the past to show what step three is about, I'll let Jim tell you in his own words from the latest issue of cleaner times.
"Protecting water could not be more important, says Gamble, And it's just as important to protect water underground as above ground."
What is Mr. Gamble, the western environmental chair of the PWNA saying here? He is clearly stating that the next attack on this industry is going to be convincing the EPA that the ground they have considered as adequate filtration in the past is no longer adequate and the water must be vacuumed and removed. Get ready Wood guys, Get Ready house washers, roof washers. Step three is coming after you. Jim already stated this on other boards, but it must have gone right over a lot of heads because you wood guys are sitting on your hands and letting him destroy your industry right out from under you. Are you ready to reclaim your water from decks? Are you ready to tote water and spend hundreds of dollars transporting and disposing of it from a roof wash????? You are being attacked and you don't even know it.
Next step:
Gamble goes on to say (in regard to general concrete cleaning)
"The idea is to get the runoff cited by Gamble under the umbrella of Publicly Owned Treatment works (POTW) The POTW will determine if a filtration unit is needed, which in most cases I believe it would be."
Now, I wonder why that is? Is it just a coincidence that Robert and Jim have been working together to build filtration units that are now being promoted and sold on Michael's forum? What POTW's have been requiring filtration? Where? Not here. Not in 99.9 percent of the country. But the POTW in Jim's area of California is a shared office with the stormwater authority and they have some of the most restrictive regulations in the country. Jim and Robert are bound and determined to introduce these draconian rules to the regulators in YOUR town. And they are doing it day by day with the money you put in their pockets via your PWNA dues.
We are being assaulted by our own peers.
You are voting with your membership. Please pass this information on to every PWNA member you know so they can see the destruction that is being wrought with their own dues.
Tomorrow is an important day for our country. But no matter who wins the election, nothing can be done about saving your business as you now know it unless these guys are stopped in their tracks.
The UAMCC is working hard to bring common sense and practical solutions so that our industry can be recognized as for the environmental benefits we provide utilizing frequent cleaning and true best management practices.
Please consider what direction you are voting for your industry to go when you get ready to support an industry org.
To see the cleaner times article in question, just do a search for cleaner times and click on their latest issue. Page 8.
PAGE SIX STARTS THIS ARTICLE...CLICK HERE
What election is this that is so important? It is your election whether or not to joing the PWNA and provide more funds with your dues so that they can continue their assault on you.
I will summarize the Jim Gamble section of the latest cleaner times article on "Government Regulations and provide snippets of his interview for clarification.
The PWNA reports that they have spoken to near 500 regulators in the past twelve months presenting Robert Hinderliter's one-man BMP's that he authored alone while rejecting suggestions from the industry as a whole. These are the same BMP's that he promised on multiple boards would not be "shopped" to the regulators. Now they are apparently proud that they have "presented" to 500 regulators without......."shopping"....as if there is a difference.
It wasn't good enough that Robert was the originator or the myth of "nothing down the dr$in but rain". A couple of years ago the oldest reference to that phrase on the entire internet was from Robert's writings in the early 1990's. ...No apparently that assault on our industry wasn't enough to open up the floodgates of sales of reclaim equipment. Another step was needed.
Step two, the PWNA "BMP's" that are now being pushed on regulators around the country. The EPA, on it's own website to this day promote bmp's that allow for cleaning water that has no soap introduced to go in the storm drain after a sediment filter. But that will not sell enough equipment, nor shore up the accounts of those who have chosen to bet the farm on that equipment by going deep into debt buying it. So Robert came in with step 2, where, in spite of our pleas to remove any reference to hot water, Robert got around the EPA's opening that allowed us to put sediment filtered cleaning water without soap down the storm drain by introducing a foreign concept to the regulators, that being the concept that water that is "hot" is an emulsifier and is just as bad or worse than soap. This was a concept the EPA never envisioned till our fearless leader, Robert Hinderliter got in front of them and powerpointed them into a coma till they accepted it.
You'd think that would be enough. How much more could one man do to heap regulations on us that previously didn't exist? Well, that brings us to step three. Robert brings in a newcomer in Jim Gamble. The same man who told us "one drop of caustic will kill all the wildlife in the sewer" ......wildlife? .....in the sewer??..... I don't need to go on with the past to show what step three is about, I'll let Jim tell you in his own words from the latest issue of cleaner times.
"Protecting water could not be more important, says Gamble, And it's just as important to protect water underground as above ground."
What is Mr. Gamble, the western environmental chair of the PWNA saying here? He is clearly stating that the next attack on this industry is going to be convincing the EPA that the ground they have considered as adequate filtration in the past is no longer adequate and the water must be vacuumed and removed. Get ready Wood guys, Get Ready house washers, roof washers. Step three is coming after you. Jim already stated this on other boards, but it must have gone right over a lot of heads because you wood guys are sitting on your hands and letting him destroy your industry right out from under you. Are you ready to reclaim your water from decks? Are you ready to tote water and spend hundreds of dollars transporting and disposing of it from a roof wash????? You are being attacked and you don't even know it.
Next step:
Gamble goes on to say (in regard to general concrete cleaning)
"The idea is to get the runoff cited by Gamble under the umbrella of Publicly Owned Treatment works (POTW) The POTW will determine if a filtration unit is needed, which in most cases I believe it would be."
Now, I wonder why that is? Is it just a coincidence that Robert and Jim have been working together to build filtration units that are now being promoted and sold on Michael's forum? What POTW's have been requiring filtration? Where? Not here. Not in 99.9 percent of the country. But the POTW in Jim's area of California is a shared office with the stormwater authority and they have some of the most restrictive regulations in the country. Jim and Robert are bound and determined to introduce these draconian rules to the regulators in YOUR town. And they are doing it day by day with the money you put in their pockets via your PWNA dues.
We are being assaulted by our own peers.
You are voting with your membership. Please pass this information on to every PWNA member you know so they can see the destruction that is being wrought with their own dues.
Tomorrow is an important day for our country. But no matter who wins the election, nothing can be done about saving your business as you now know it unless these guys are stopped in their tracks.
The UAMCC is working hard to bring common sense and practical solutions so that our industry can be recognized as for the environmental benefits we provide utilizing frequent cleaning and true best management practices.
Please consider what direction you are voting for your industry to go when you get ready to support an industry org.
To see the cleaner times article in question, just do a search for cleaner times and click on their latest issue. Page 8.
PAGE SIX STARTS THIS ARTICLE...CLICK HERE
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