Short article explaining where most pressure cleaning companies fall short and where DevilWash excels on the EPA website.
Pressure Wash / Power Wash Discharges
"The most common method of compliance with the CWA is to prevent process wastewater discharges to waters of the United States. If your discharge does not reach waters of the United States, then there are no requirements under the CWA.
Examples of compliance without a discharge are vacuuming up the process wastewater or berming the process water and allowing it to evaporate.
An additional method of compliance is to discharge the water to an NPDES permitted sanitary sewer system (the municipality may have additional pretreatment requirements before accepting your discharge).
The most common form of non-compliance is to discharge the process water into a storm sewer system or into a city street that drains to a storm water inlet.
Most storm drainage systems in Region 6 discharge directly to waters of the United States without treatment, which means anything that discharges into a storm drain is the same as putting it directly into the waterbody receiving the storm drain discharge"
DevilWash stays EPA compliant by vacuuming up washwater, filtering it and then reusing the water in the cleaning process, this allows us to have ZERO wastewater discharge into ANY drain.
Entrepreneurship is being taught in classrooms throughout the country, but Arizona State University takes it a step further.
Students with a compelling business plan can receive grant money to help move their ideas toward reality. As the program has evolved, the process has grown increasingly competitive, especially as students try to bypass a difficult job market by creating their own opportunities.
Zach Hamilton, an ASU sophomore, is one of them. Hamilton's new business, Devil Wash, is an environmentally friendly pressure-wash company that already cleans sidewalks and driveways for clients in metro Phoenix. Since 2008, Hamilton has received two awards through the SkySong program at ASU, totaling $20,000, to help develop his business.
The first was a smaller award from the Entrepreneur Advantage Project, or EAP. The other, the Edson award, brought him a larger sum. Winners of the Edson also receive an office at the SkySong building, as well as mentoring for each step they take in the new venture.
Hamilton, 20, is proof of the impact of the program.
"They give us everyone and everything, they will bend over backwards for you," Hamilton said. "All the resources and technology is amazing."
