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Get Wise
About Water
Reclaim
Some things that you should have known but weren’t told about reclaim
By Dean Taylor
dean@progressivepump.com
In this article, I am going to discuss a basic truth
that many car wash owners need to know, but are
not often told. I, like other authors of water reclaim
articles, have also read many times about new approaches,
new technology, and “innovations” for
reclaim systems, “basic facts” about biological or
ozone systems, etc. Such articles are mostly informative
to a degree, and accurate in what they say,
but leave pertinent basic facts unsaid. Herein I try
to state some of the often unsaid basic facts that
should be understood by anyone considering a reclaim
system, no matter the type. Let’s consider it
“reclaim 101.” A good understanding of the very
basics of reclaim systems will put you in a far better
position for discussions with your sales rep enroute
to specifying one.
It’s dirt, and it has to go
somewhere!
First, the water from washing cars is really, really
dirty, possibly containing dirt, sand, salt, organic
material (e.g. bird droppings, etc.) and car applications
(oil, wax, surfactants, detergents, soaps, etc.),
and any manner of other dissolved or suspended
solids. These materials must be altered and/or removed
to an acceptable degree from the wash ef-
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