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.
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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It is so simple for a client to miss this important fact. The client is so fixed on the pump sizes, the control options, the electrical requirements… Surely the treatment process equipment manufacturer has the right medias installed into their equipment. Right? Not really. In fact, there are suppliers who do not worry about the …
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This aerospace client had installed an a “patented media filtration system for enhanced industrial stormwater treatment” on their site about 5 years ago. However, it never achieved benchmark compliance and was well known for plugging completely up after a couple of rain events. The filter even overflowed on the first rain event! With that filter …
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It is the final price (sticker shock) that our competition proposed that led the purchasing manager who is also the Environmental, Health & Safety manager to contact Gullywasher to perform a peer review. Evans has 5 outfalls on their site with one 5-acre building, two 1/4-acre buildings, a 5-acre employee parking lot (with materials storage), …
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