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The city’s current vehicle wash site is insufficient to ensure that pollutant-tainted wash water stays out of the storm sewers and waterways. This means that the city is not currently complying with relevant environmental permits. A new indoor wash facility that “captures and cleans, and not just discharge[s]” wash water would enable the city to “catch up to those requirements,” said Jeremy McPike, the city’s director of general services.

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