Minimizing Parking Lot Pollutants
MINIMIZING YOUR PARKING LOT POLLUTANTS
Lets focus on minimizing your parking lot pollutants. Over the last few years, the Bay Area has seen an uptick in the jobs market. This growth has also created an increase in commuter traffic. With cars still being the primary means of transportation, business parking lots are often at capacity. With this higher volume of traffic and parked cars in your lots, the need to consistently maintain your parking areas increases as well.
The primary purpose of a parking lot is to provide both a short and long-term place to park vehicles. As the volume of cars increases, It is inevitable that your parking lot will become the repository for various pollutants that will be dispersed into the air and water. In an effort to protect the environment, there is a recent trend to provide regulations for drainage and pollution abatement in an effort to minimize the amount of pollutants that are collected and dispersed from parking lots.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF POLLUTANTS FOUND IN PARKING LOTS
Parking lots can easily become dumping grounds for careless disposal of trash and chemical transmissions. The following are examples of pollutants that are often found in parking lots:
- Motor oil
- Grease
- Gasoline
- Sediment
- Heavy metals
- Wet and Dry Trash
HOW TO MINIMIZE PARKING LOT POLLUTANTS
- Make sure your parking lot sweeping and maintenance service uses regenerative sweepers to minimize the amount of dust released into the air while parking lot cleaning.
- Use environmental-friendly cleaning products for paved areas.
- Keep paved surfaces clean and well maintained
- When building, repairing, or repaving your parking lot, consider using permeable paving materials
- Support your local storm or surface water program by having parking lot water collected and filtered before it is released into the waterways/landscape.
- Make sure all trash containers are emptied regularly and have them visible and well placed to encourage their use by visitors to your parking lot.
As Silicon Valley grows, so will the number of cars on the roadways and in parking lots. Let Pro-Sweep Inc. be your professional parking lot cleaning team and make your parking lot a cleaner and safer area for your employees and customers, alike.