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RESIDENTIAL CAR WASHES
 Whether you live next to a creek or a mile from one, you may be polluting it unintentionally. One of the most common ways this can occur is by washing your car at home either in your driveway or on your street. Oil & grease, automotive fluids, brake and exhaust dust, which contain heavy metals, are all pollutants, which end up in our creeks. Soaps, even biodegradable soaps are toxic to wildlife. Listed below are some steps you can take to prevent pollutants from entering our creeks when your car needs a bath.
- Rinse cars with water only, do not use any soap.
- Wash cars on a lawn or other unpaved surface where dirty washwater won't flow onto a driveway, street, gutter or storm drain.
- Empty your bucket of soapy water into a sink or toilet.
- Better yet. Take your car to a commercial car wash, which treats and discharges their washwater to the sanitary sewer.
Just remember any pollutant, even soap that enters a storm drain will affect the habitat in our creeks and Bay.
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