black scoobs

having a chat with a friend the other day and told me this , i laughed at him and asked whyhe say`s "if you wash your car in the street with shampoo etc then your useing chemicals which if it enters the drain sytem then your classed as polluting the water therefor can be prosicuted. so iv had a look around the web very quickly and found another site saying the same ..

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Tiz like that here, it is illegal to wash your car anywhere other than in a designated washing station which has a seperate drainage system.

Your neighbour will report you if you are seen and the police WILL come and fine you.

JackClark

I never wash my car with anything but rain, much cheaper in the long run.

SCOOBYD00

LOL

PAUL CRAFTS

Paying air at garage,Paying for bottled water,High priced petrol, U bet next thing we will all be paying for a S--T

Phil

Tis true

At work we had to install a seperator tank for all the vehicles to be washed over

in practice they won't prosecute of course

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Great...I can prosecute the idiot he washes his car in the road instead of his drive


Sods law dicates evertime I wax the car, I drive down the road and end up getting dirty water sprayed up the sides of the car because of the huge puddle he's left when he cleaned his car...annoying to say the least

black scoobs

mgcvk

My neighbour has just done a ten stretch in chokey for aggressively polishing his volvo on a public highway

ben44

GrollySTI

If you're on a water meter you already are!

ben44

I hope you don't mean that I pay the water company to deliver it, then the sewage company to remove it, then clean it a bit and sell it back to me? Right, thats it. My direct debit is cancelled

MikeCardiff

iTrader: (2)

Wash it with washing up liquid instead of car shampoo - that way all thats going down the drain is the same as comes out of your kitchen, so cant be illegal, can it ?

StickyMicky

or put your posh wash and wax in a fairy liquid bottle to evade capture from the neighbourhood watch extremists

Phil

Thats not the problem

Your waste water from the house goes into the sewage system

the drains in the road goes straight back into rivers/sea thats why they don't like oil / chemicals poured into drains


IIRC of course

OllyK

Some of the drains do, many of the older ones are common. New houses have separate rain and soil pipes, i.e. the gutter water and household water are kept separate, on older houses they all go to a common drain, and on my street all the waste, household, gutter and road drain all goes in to a common system.

TelBoy

Genuinely amusing NSR thread alert! "Aggressively polishing"

Nicci

On Saturday, I had just finished washing my car (in the drive) and was leathering off the final bits when suddenly my back got wet and I heard 'sorry'.

The stupid woman across the road had decided to put her car in the street and jetwash it, with the wind blowing the water across to me and my clean car.

I was not impressed.

lightning101

I like where this is going

How wet 'was' your t-shirt ?

Leslie

Take it to the local Jetwash, it works well and is kind to the paintwork.

Les

scoobyvirgin

I always wash my car on the road. If I wash it on the drive and all the water collects round the house. Plus if hoovering out after, it helps to have a nice dry area to stand and not get wet feet inside car.

Chip Sengravy

That may be the case, but that common system will go straight to the sewage treatment works. It just means that the raw inlet sewage at that particular works will be more diluted.

Generally most water that leaves the sewage treatment works is not drinkable, it is returned to the river/resevoir system, where it dilutes again, and then is drawn off downstream at water treatment works where it is filtered and dosed, then distributed.

Nicci

You chose to ignore the part when I said my back got wet

lightning101

I'm a man, I hear what I want to hear

So did you wrestle her to the ground with the hose still flailing between your lithe young bodies ?

prodriva

A bit of soapy water down the drains round here where I work would probably to the the drainage system the world of good. Lets just say there are a lot of restaurants, takeaways, Halal shops and taxi's. I've seen restaurants and takeaways pouring old cooking oil down the drains, Halal shops pouring disgusting looking water down the drains, taxi drivers and like minded car drivers doing oil changes on there cars and pouring the old oil down the drains. No wonder we see the lorries hoovering out the drains on a regular basis

Nicci

She is middle aged with big hips and a very large bottom.

Flatcapdriver

Err. You could try vacuuming it first.

lightning101

Small waisted and big busted you say

Big-G

I don't understand...what is wash and wax?