breezyridge

What are the ramifications of rinsing the oil-soaked rags and sending the water down the drain? Is it OK to send that material to the water treatment plant? If the oily water goes down the storm sewer, would it go to the local waterways completely untreated? Would dumping the water into the back yard send it into our ground water? Would burning the rags send the smoke and fumes into the air that we breath? Maybe the best way to dispose of it is to let the rags dry and send them to the land fill where the contaminate is somewhat contained, at least in theory.