How do handle this environmental nightmare?

mistersqueegee

mistersqueegee

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Quite a common sight where I live almost every winter -
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This is the way all the snow banks look. Full of oil, hydraulic fluid, etc and guess what? It all goes out the parking lot, down the street, and to the storm sewers. Where's the outrage, where's the inspector to cite the building owner for allowing this pollution to go unchecked? Now you can't tell me with any credibility that I would create more of an issue cleaning the sidewalks and dumpster areas on a regular basis than the amount of unchecked pollution coming off this parking lot at the next thaw.
Sorry, I saw this today and it got my gears going.
 
Come on now, that is just good old black snow. hahahahaha j/k

I hear what you are saying but there is nothing that anyone can do about the leaky cars on the roads but nature sure does a good job with things so far unless there is a huge spill like tankers spilling.
 
Maybe Robert should build a 5000 watt snow vacuum to attach to snow plows for reclaim.

Then he can author some power point presentations with a lot of these pictures claiming the snow plow drivers are polluters.

Robert, if you are reading this, I am the founder of the Snow Plow Reclaim System. You may improve it, lobby for the implementation, and sell it, but I'm the founder because I mentioned it first. lol.
 
I have been asked this question many times...."why are the piles of snow black"

Yes some of the stuff in the snow is oil, grease and fluids of all kinds. but the main reason the snow is black or grey is SALT.

Where does all that salt go? down the drain.......

Tony if you could figure out a way to reclaim the salt, you would be a very rich man......

We use on average around 1500 tons of salt per season.....More than most small cities...

Wat gets me is the EPA only looks at how you store the salt...... And not the fact we spread it all over gods creation?
 
Well, that is different. It is interesting the contradictions that come up with the EPA and model ordinances out there. My question, without getting o political, is if anyone from the EPA has ever observed the storm sewers after a rain event, and how much oil runs down the drain after a normal rain event? It is astonishing.
 
There's no oil or dirt in storm runoff Scott, there is nothing in that but pure heavenly rain. The Lord knows the rules in some places say "nothing down the dr@in but rain" and he certainly wouldn't break the law. lol.

Most powerwashing trucks, even the larger ones, will use less than 3000 gallons of water in a day's shift.

That's about 1/5th of a swimming pool.

In that time they will sweep and pre-clean, picking up trash and debris and garbage and converting it from storm drain clogging plugs to solid waste for the dumpster.

In most cases they are coordinated with the sweeper trucks who come by and suck up even the tiniest of sand and dirt that is washed off the sidewalks before rain even happens.

Yet cities who have been affected by the likes of the PW@A and $obert $inderliter and have fallen for the fallacy that we somehow "pollute" are left to turn into third world countries because of the fear of cleaning.

So they look like this after a flood:


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Instead of this, where cities have good housekeeping policies and allow us pollution reduction specialists do our job:




Did I get political? lol
 
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