Gullywasher has led the way in stormwater treatment technologies for over 20 years. Explore our insights on stormwater compliance and creating a sustainable water management system.
The Site An industrial waste transfer facility in Oregon sits at the intersection of heavy vehicle traffic and stormwater regulation. Every rain event is a collection event — brake dust, tire fines, debris from truck undercarriages, and residue from galvanized roofing migrate across the facility surface and concentrate in the detention pond. From there, there’s …
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At Gullywasher, we are not just playing the game, we’re changing it! We have crafted a suite of biochar filter berms that are perfect for those heavy-duty companies that need to keep the environment clean without slowing down the pace of production. New Ideas! Tesla Motors, through one of our top dealers, required a specialized …
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Oyster Shells & Oyster Chips We at Gullywasher are always looking for better treatments for increasing stormwater purity. Sometimes it is best to look upstream and into ways to take out the bulk load of the stormwater contamination. This allows your main stormwater treatment process to be online longer, reduce its monthly maintenance requirements, extend …
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California experienced the driest January, February, and March in a record dating back over 100 years in 2022 and the Sierra Nevadas receiving just six inches of precipitation in that time. All of California’s cities are under a drought emergency proclamation with the state’s largest reservoirs currently at half of their historical averages, and the …
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Hundreds of Stormwater Discharges Are Getting These Penalty Letters with Settlement Offers. Background: From Y2015 to Y2020, the Industrial General Permit (IGP) had only Numeric Action Levels (NALs). If the NALs were exceeded, you will go into Level One or Level Two – depending on your previous compliance year. Then, you were required to submit …
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Catch Basin Inserts that Work ! Our patent-pending catch basin filtration process is based on the metal ions forcing the sodium ions to exchange places, thus stripping the metals out of the stormwater. By having a massive amount of negatively charged sites occupied with a single sodium atom (ion), metals can be stripped out efficiently …
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Berkeley Marine Back to Baseline Status! Berkeley Marine Center lies within one of the major epicenters of environmental activism. Imagine trying to operate a heavy marine repair yard that is just down the same street of UC Berkeley? And that the space adjoining your boat repair yard is a state marine park with spectacular views …
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It was the Facilities Manager of the Vehicle Maintenance Center of the US Postal Distribution Center who also had the environmental responsibility of achieving stormwater quality compliance for their entire 10-acre site. Being the central distribution for the State of Oregon and SW Washington, hundreds of long-range tractor-trailers, cube vans, cargo trucks, and postal trucks …
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Of recent, we at Gullywasher are finding that more governmental-based organizations are having us qualify our industrial stormwater filter products against a series of environmental attributes that will benefit their use at the various sites on a long-term basis. Bio-based, Dual Stage Upflow Biofilters: We utilize a non-chemical, non-electrical passive filter process that uses a media …
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AutoGator sure does stir up the imagination. It is an auto/truck salvage yard established on the outskirts of Sacramento. What I imagine is a huge gator just ripping apart the junk vehicles. However, that is really farther from the truth. With careful thought, Ron Dumas has redesigned his company’s work environment in order to meet …
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