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Posted by Roger Shoaf on March 18, 2007, 5:42 pm
I have had good luck with ordinary laundry detergent. Dampen the area with a
little water and then sprinkle with the detergent. Use a stiff brush and
scrub. I would not worry too much about the residue going into the storm
drain, when the detergent breaks the bonds of the oil, it is well on is way
to breaking down, this happens naturally anyway, but the soap hurries the
process along.
Think about this, as every car ages, it drips oil and these drops land on
the pavement. when it rains, all of this oil, and the oil that is released
from the asphalt (oil mixed with crushed rock) is absorbed by the
environment where the oil came from in the first place. Naturally existing
microbes break down the oil into smaller and smaller bits.
Cleaning a drive way is not the same thing as draining your crankcase in the
storm drain.
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Roger Shoaf
If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent.
> I had a car with an oil leak. The car served its usefulness and was
> hauled away but I'm left with an oil patch residue.
>
> My friend has a water compressor and I suppose I could blast away at it
> but from what I've heard oil and water don't mix. Besides, that water
> would get into the storm drain. There's enough junk going inside the
> storm drains I don't want to add my share. Is there something, like an
> enzyme, I can get at a hardware store that can eat away the oil residue?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide.
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