Information for Residents

• Do not wash, repair, or maintain your vehicles on streets
• Do not wash detergents, degreasers, detailing products, motor oil, radiator fluid, or any other car-care product onto the street
• Clean up all spills.  Fix leaks immediately
• Properly dispose of fluids.  Call 1-800-CLEANUP (253-2687) for the recycling center nearest you
• Use drip pans under leaking vehicles

Lawn and Garden:

• Rake up all grass clippings, leaves, mulch, and other debris following your gardening activities.  Start a compost pile
• Don't blow anything into the street or storm drains
• Sweep dirt and other debris from sidewalks, driveways, and garages into a trash can
• Minimize the use of pesticides, weed killers, fertilizers, and other chemicals.
• Use environmentally-friendly alternatives that dissolve quickly.  Do not apply any products prior to a forecasted rain 
• Prevent over-watering and adjust your sprinklers to eliminate overspray
• Protect bare spots, slopes, and hillsides from discharging dirt onto sidewalks, gutters, streets, or storm drains

• Take a bag when you walk your pets and clean up after them
• Dispose of pet waste in the trash

• Do not hose down paints, thinners, concrete, grout, plaster, dirt and other construction residue into the street

Pools:

• Do not discharge swimming pool water containing chlorine at levels higher than 0.01 parts per million (ppm) to the storm drain.  Chlorine levels higher than 0.01 ppm are harmful to aquatic organisms
• Dispose of wastewater from washing cartridge filters in a dirt area
• Ensure that the water's pH level is in the neutral range and that the water is neither cloudy nor 'green'
• Discharge filter and acid backwash to a sanitary sewer connection, NOT the storm drain
• Discharge your pool water over several days onto your lawn without creating runoff onto the sidewalk before discharging into a stormdrain

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