On Topic: it's illegal to wash my 914, you guys will get a kick out of this... Options

[nebreitling]

i just recieved a "warning" from the university (i live in uni-owned grad housing) because i was caught... get this.... WASHING MY CAR. well, SHIT....

Apparently, it is now ILLEGAL to wash your own car in Palo Alto, under the assumption that trace amounts of oil and heavy metals will be carried into drains and gutters, and on into the bay. Palo Alto Sewer Ordinance 16.09.106

i bet i'm the only stanford phd who came in a liberal, and will come out a conservative.

[fiid]

OK, I don't get it. Don't they have water treatment plants in CA? I live in NorthWest Indiana by Lake Michigan, we have 5 major steel mills and get this....
Water treatment plants (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Doesn't the sewer water get "treated / filtered"
before it heads out to the bay?? What about all
the oil and crap the is washed off the streets
after a rain does it just go straight to the Bay?

- Garold

I think in CA, all runoff water goes straight to the bay. I belive sewage gets treated.

CA is WAY behind on infrastructure like this - the roads here are pretty crappy and sparse. Our power system - you will have heard about. I believe since we are a big state, with a lot of environmental and social progression we don't have the money to invest in infrastructure upgrades, plus the organisational culture here is very much "focus on what you can change easily and ignore the rest", which I believe is responsible for the fact that the government here is even less efficient than everywhere else. We have the second highest income tax rate in the country after NY, don't we??

Still - personally - I love taxation without representation. It's my favorite meal of the day.