Water Recovery - How it Affects You

Did you know there are two sewer systems in every city? The Storm Sewer collects the runoff from the streets and gutters and goes directly into the lakes and rivers without being treated or filtered. The Sanitary Sewer collects everything that runs out of houses and office buildings and channels it to the wastewater treatment plant.

The Clean Water Act requires all wastewater treatment facilities to treat sanitary sewer water to certain standards. It also requires municipalities to maintain standards for storm sewer water discharge into state waters.

In order to enforce these standards, the EPA, state and local authorities can levy fines against anyone who discharges ‘process wastewater’ into the storm sewer. These fines can range from $10,000 to $50,000 per incident and are charged to both the property owner and the contractor.

According to the state of Colorado, all water generated by power washing (pressure washing) operations is classified as ‘process wastewater’.

Basically water recovery means this: DON’T LET THE WASH WATER GO DOWN THE STORM SEWER. When wash water has only dirt and natural debris it can be discharged to landscaping. If it has anything else – detergents, grease, non-natural materials, etc., – the wash water must be filtered and discharged into the sanitary sewer system at the wash site.

Some wastewater districts require a permit to discharge wastewater into the sanitary sewer. This can mean that the power washing company holds a permit for any work done within a district or it can mean that the district will grant a permit per job site.

Not all jobs require water recovery. Make sure the company you hire has a thorough understanding of the requirements in your area. And verify that they can and will do the recovery properly before you hire them. It’s your money and reputation at stake.

We have permits from: Denver Water, Broomfield PACE Certificate Wastewater, Littleton/Englewood Wastewater, Metro Wastewater, and South Adams County Wastewater. And we're the first power wash company certified by Boulder County's PACE program.

Special Services for:

Capitol Hill Cleanup and Graffiti Removal

Denver Mayor
John Hickenlooper thanks Joel Shorey, President of Wash On Wheels, for volunteering trucks and equipment to help with the Capitol Hill graffiti removal.

Drew O'Connor,
President of Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN), greets Joel Shorey, President of Wash On Wheels, after the company helped with their graffiti removal and neighborhood cleanup.

Proudly Serving:
Counties: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas,
Elbert, El Paso, Gilpin, Jefferson, Larimer, Morgan, Weld
Cities: Arvada, Aurora, Berthoud, Boulder, Brighton, Broomfield, Castle Rock, Centennial, Colorado Springs, Commerce City, Dacono, Denver, Elizabeth, Englewood, Evergreen, Fort Lupton, Glendale, Golden, Greeley, Greenwood Village, Henderson, Highlands Ranch, Lafayette, Lakewood, Littleton, Longmont, Louisville, Loveland, Monument, Morrison, Northglenn, Parker, Thornton, Westminster, Wheat Ridge

We Clean:
• Advertising displays • Advertising signs • Agricultural equipment • Airline equipment • Aircraft engines • Aircraft hangars • Airplanes • Airport runways • Awnings • Aluminum siding • Amusement Parks • Apartment buildings • Aquariums • Architectural iron • Asphalt equipment • Auditoriums • Automobiles • Automobile service stations • Automobile tires • Automobile trailers • Boilers • Barbecue grills • Barges • Barrels and drums • Barricades • Bicycles • Boats • Boat equipment • Boat trailers • Brick mortar clean up • Bridges • Buildings of all kind • Bulldozers • Buses • Cafeterias • Campgrounds • Car dealerships • Carnival equipment • Cattle • Cemetery markers • Churches, Temples and Synagogues • Construction clean up • Construction equipment • Conveyor lines • Cooling towers • Cranes • Culverts • Dairy equipment • Drainpipes • Drilling rigs • Drive-thrus • Driveways • Efflorescence • Elephants • Factories • Farms and Farm equipment • Fleets • Food processing plants • Forklift trucks • Garages • Garbage collection equipment • Garden and lawn equipment • Generator turbines • Golf carts • Grain elevators • Graffiti removal • Heavy equipment • Helicopters • Heliports • Hogs • Homes • Horse trailers • Hospitals • Hotels • Houseboats • Landscaping clean up • Laundries • Lawnmowers • Livestock equipment • Logging equipment • Lumberyards • Machine shop equipment • Marine equipment • Marquees • Mobile homes • Monuments • Oil/grease spills • Outdoor furniture • Oxygen tank de-icing • Painting preparation • Parking garages • Parking lots • Patios • Phone booths • Pipelines • Porches • Power plants • Processing tanks • Recreational vehicles • Restaurant vent hoods • Restaurants • Roofs • Schools • Sewage treatment equipment • Ship hulls • Shopping centers • Sidewalks • Signs • Silos • Slaughterhouses • Smoke damage • Steel mills • Stockyards • Storage tanks • Storefronts • Stucco • Swimming pools • Theaters • Tires • Tractors • Trash chutes • Truck fleets • Tunnels • Warehouses • Water towers • Water treatment equipment • Zoos