| Should all carwashes being built in the future be | | | | myself.How could this best be done? Well with a |
| commissioned to collect all the water coming off the | | | | series of dips or concrete canals thru the parking lot |
| cars to be recycled and reused? Should all rain water | | | | which were indented about 2-3 inches like a reverse |
| coming onto the property, perhaps even adjoining | | | | speed bump and with all areas sloped towards it. |
| properties be sent thru a similar system to treat, filter | | | | Adjacent property run off could also be collected, by |
| and condition the water to be used to wash | | | | use of small grated troughs running along their |
| cars?Could you build a car wash which relied on rain | | | | perimeters and towards the car wash, which would |
| storm water with reservoirs and recycling using all the | | | | include all rain gutter run off too. The car wash would |
| water over and over again to prevent waste, | | | | always have plenty of water and would not need city |
| conserve water and perhaps even not have any city | | | | water hook up, but rather a large reservoir of |
| water hook ups or sewer discharges at all; a perfectly | | | | pre-filtrated storm water run off.Currently in the car |
| environmentally friendly car wash system for the | | | | wash industry there are plenty of fully self-contained |
| twenty first century? Well, yes this is all possible. How | | | | close loop systems, which recycle the water and |
| so you ask?Well recently a smart Business Marketing | | | | reuse it over and over again. This concept would be |
| Student came up with this concept and pitched the | | | | taking that concept to a whole new level. Indeed there |
| idea to an online think tank, to ask them if; A) Anyone | | | | is 5-7 gallons loss of water thru evaporation during the |
| had ever done this before and B) If there was | | | | drying process and ending up on the towels and/or left |
| equipment already available which could be used to | | | | on the car wash property while dripping. Most of this |
| make it possible.It appears our fellow Marketing | | | | would then be collected unless a super hot day. |
| Student and Thinker, Paula Chavis, has hit the jackpot | | | | Additionally the water that drips off the car as it drives |
| on both accounts. In that yes such equipment does | | | | down the street from the car wash would then be |
| exist and it would only be a matter of installing it and | | | | compensated for by the collection of storm water |
| no, no one has ever done anything like this on this level | | | | from the rain and the run off from the adjacent |
| or scale to my knowledge. Previously before | | | | properties. Consider all this n 2006.Lance Winslow - |
| retirement, I was indeed in the car wash industry | | | | Online Think Tank forum board. |