Healthy Household Habits - Vehicle and Garage

* It is believed in good faith that the following content can be found in the December 2009 (Number 393) edition of The Crestwood Adviser and is for general reference and/or research purposes only.  For further information regarding the information listed here, please contact The Village of Crestwood in Crestwood, Illinois. *

Use a commercial car wash or wash your car on a lawn or other unpaved surface to minimize the amount of dirty, soapy water flowing into the storm drain and eventually into your local waterbody.

Check your car, boat, motorcycle and other machinery and equipment for leaks and spills.  Make repairs as soon as possible.  Clean up spilled fluids with an absorbent material like kitty litter or sand and don't rinse the spills into a nearby storm drain.  Remember to properly dispose of them in your trash.

Recycle used oil and other automotive fluids at participating service stations.  Don't dump these chemicals down the storm drain or dispose of them in your trash.

STORM DRAINS CONNECT TO WATERBODIES!