Runoff County Pond

[ithaca10]

While fishing this local pond yesterday i noticed suds coming out of a drainage pipe a guy was washing his car in the street and the suds were going into the sewer and draining into the "County" pond which is about 50 yds away. This house was built about five yrs ago at the end of the street and the sewer and drain were put in around the same time but i never noticed it.

Should i call the town, county or state to save this pond from further pollution.

[basspilot]

It couldn't hurt I suppose, but I'd probably go with calling someone in the DEP or F&W before local PD.

[ithaca10]

Wasn't going to call PD, thought of calling parks dept town and county if the response is negative i'll call the state DEP.

[buzzbaiter]

Maybe the fish can take a bubble bath

[acabtp]

what am i missing here? what is different between this house and every other non-rural house? when any of them washes their car, their soap end up in some waterway because of the storm drains... i guess usually the bubbles have popped by then and you can't see the guy washing the car, so this time was just more noticeable? what do you expect them to do?

fwiw, they do make a variety of non-toxic, biodegradable soaps for washing cars these days. do you know what the guy was using?

i personally use http://eagleone.com/enviroshine-car-wash even though i am more rural and my car wash runoff doesn't end up in a storm drain.

[Mark B.]

NJDEP Environmental Hotline 877-WARNDEP (877-927-6337) - 24-hour toll-free number for reporting environmental complaints and abuses including spills, discharges and emergencies

[ithaca10]

Originally Posted by acabtp

what am i missing here? what is different between this house and every other non-rural house? when any of them washes their car, their soap end up in some waterway because of the storm drains... i guess usually the bubbles have popped by then and you can't see the guy washing the car, so this time was just more noticeable? what do you expect them to do?

fwiw, they do make a variety of non-toxic, biodegradable soaps for washing cars these days. do you know what the guy was using?

i personally use http://eagleone.com/enviroshine-car-wash even though i am more rural and my car wash runoff doesn't end up in a storm drain.

The point is they build a new house put a sewer in and run a drainage pipe 50 yds into a county owned pond/park. It wasn't there before the house was built and doesn't go thru any sewage plant. And it isn't the only house on the street so why put it in just for one house and have it dump once again directly into the pond.

[Lard Almighty]

Originally Posted by Mark B.

NJDEP Environmental Hotline 877-WARNDEP (877-927-6337) - 24-hour toll-free number for reporting environmental complaints and abuses including spills, discharges and emergencies

Good luck finding a responsible party for soap suds.

If the storm drains flow directly into this lake, then soap is hardly the biggest concern. Unless you are seeing someone dumping oil down the storm drains, then I wouldn't even bother.

[acabtp]

Originally Posted by ithaca10

The point is they build a new house put a sewer in and run a drainage pipe 50 yds into a county owned pond/park. It wasn't there before the house was built and doesn't go thru any sewage plant. And it isn't the only house on the street so why put it in just for one house and have it dump once again directly into the pond.

Almost no storm drains go through a sewage plant... They dump the street water directly into the waterways. What they built for that house is standard.

The places that use a combined street/septic sewer (like NYC) are even worse though, they can't handle large volumes of rainwater, so when storms come, they discharge raw sewage into the waterways