These are some of
the types of service bay
  businesses affected:

• Automotive Service Stations
« Tire Shops
• Quick Lubes
• Car Rental Shops
• Body Shops
• Truck Service Stations
"Muffler Shops
• Farm Maintenance Garages
• Automotive Dealerships
• Automobile Repair Shops
" School Bus Maintenance Barns
• Taxi Cab Maintenance Garages
• Government Vehicular
   Maintenance Shops
• Airport Hangar Operations
  These wastes have
    the potential to
      contaminate
         YOUR
      community^
     ground water!

    Will your business
        be affected?
     Do you service automobiles, buses,
     trucks, tractors, airplanes, or similar
     machinery?
     Do your service activities generate
     wastes that contain gasoline, diesel fuel,
     waste oil, antifreeze, degreasers, brake
     fluids, transmission fluids, etc.?

     Do you dispose of these wastes or wash
     waters into the Around via a septic
     system dramfield, dry well, cesspool, pit
     or into a storm drain?
If you answered "yes" or "maybe"
to any of these questions, read the
  "What should you do?"
     section in this brochure.
Whom should you contact?
 For additJoDalasastance contact a representative of your
 trade association or your product supplier, regarding
 your service bay operations. You may need to contact
 your municipal sewerage agency regarding hook-tips to
 a municipal wastewater treatment facility. Also you may
 need to contact your state agency with responsibility for
 the Underpwd Injection Control (UIC) Program or
 EPA regional office covering your stole.
United Slates      EPA 570-9-91-UIC1
Environmental Protection     June 1991
Office Ot Water 
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             How do
   US Environmental
   Protection Agency
          regulations
    affect  automotive
      service  wastes?
   Automotive service stations generate  waste
and wastewater daring daily operations.
Sometimes these wastes are disposed into
shallow injection wells, such as septic system
drainfields, dry wells, cesspools, or pits. If
these wastewaters are disposed into shallow wells
tiiey may endanger ground water that is or could be
a source of drinking water.

   In other cases these wastes are improperly
disposed into separate storm drains.  If these
wastewaters are disposed into separate  storm
sewers they may endanger surface water such
as streams, lakes and estuaries.

   The Environmental  Protection Agency
(EPA)  has  conducted  nationwide tests on
wastewaters from automotive service industries.
Typically they contain organic and inorganic
chemicals in concentrations which exceed  EPA's
primary drinking water standards, established under
the Safe Drinking Water ACL

   EPA and state underground injection control
programs are designed to protect underground
sources of drinking water from contamination by
injection wells. EPA prohibits the injection of
fluids that will endanger ground water that is or
could be an underground source of drinking wa-
ter.

   EPA also prohibits the discharge of  waste-
waters into separate storm sewers  and permits
certain storm water discharges under the author-
ity of the Clean Water Act.

   Your facility may also be subject to regulation
under the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA), also known as the hazardous waste
regulations.

   A waste is considered hazardous if it contains
toxic chemicals in excess of concentrations listed
in the  regulations.  EPA has added 25 new
chemicals to that list. One of these, benzene, is
found in gasoline and oil. Solvents also contain
many of these toxic chemicals.

     If you discharge these wastes into
    a septic system drainfield, dry well,
  cesspool, pit, or other injection well you
    may be operating an  unauthorized
       hazardous waste disposal unit
i
tWhat should YOU do?
You must stop discharging automotive service
waste to septic system draiirfields, dry wells, cess-
pools, pits, or separate storm drains.

Stop using the well immediately tor these wastes!

Facilities that utilize these types of disposal
systems may currently be in violation of federal,
stale or local regulations.
Temporarily seal the floor drain(s) with a plug
or other device unless the floor drain(s) are needed
to comply with state or local laws. In that case, the
wastewaters should not be allowed to enter the
injection well(s) or separate storm sewers. You
should then use one of the following plans for
alternate disposal:

  1. If a municipal wastewater treatment fadl-
  ity is available, and will accept your waste,
  you should route all waste to that facility.

  2. If a municipal wastewater treatment
  facility is not available, or the discharge is
  prohibited, route your waste to a tank or
  conainerfor proper accumulation and disposal.
SECOND:
Initiate a waste minimization program. This
can reduce the costs, liabilities, and regulatory
burdens of hazardous waste management, while
enhancing community relations.
WASTE MINIMIZATION PROGRAM
The following are methods for reducing waste:

  1.  Petroleum-based fluids from vehicles,
  including used oil, transmission fluid and
  brake fluid, should be collected and recycled.

  2.  Absorbents should be used to clean up
  imnorflmd leaks and spills which occur during
  routine vehicle maintenance.

  3*  Coolants from radiators should be
  collected and recycled.

  4.  Pam washing should be done in a self-
  contained, recirculating solvent sink.

  S.  Waste   petroleum  based   fluids,
  absorbents for clean ups, coolants and spent
  solvent should each be collected and placed
  in a Department of Transportation (DOT)
  approved waste receptacle. These wastes
  should be recycled wherever possible. Waste
  disposal  should be in accordance with
  applicable federal, state  and local waste
  regulations.
THIRD:
Implement clean-lip. Pressure wash any of the
lines or piping leading to the well. Clean out
liquids and solids from all lines and septic tanks,
dry wells,  cesspools, and pits, and dispose of
the contents by acceptable methods for waste
disposal. Fill die dry wells, cesspools and pits
with an inert material and seal with asphalt or
cement

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