OXNARD, CA — Mobile detailers and carwashes here are going to have to start collecting all of their runoff water and either recycle it or dispose of it at an approved facility, according to new rules approved by the city, the Ventura County Star reported.
The April 3 story quoted Camerino Salinas of New Millennium Auto Detailing who said the new rules are going to cost them. “It’s going to be expensive,” he said in the story. “I feel confident we can do it, but we’re a small business.”
The new rules, enforced in an attempt to abide by state and federal laws concerning storm water discharges, go into effect in a few months.
Carlos Urrunaga, of the state’s Regional Water Quality Control Board, said at an Oxnard Inter-Neighborhood Council meeting that the state could be fined up to $10,000 per day if it didn’t try and control city-wide sources of pollution.
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