News — non-point oil pollution

Only Rain Down The Drain

(A slogan of Chester County and other counties in PA)

(Reproduced from: http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/publicworks/stormwater.)

I - Reducing pollution from Parking Lots

According to Nancy Rabalais, member National Research Council on “Oil in the sea III Input, fate and Effects, 2003, Nonpoint pollution, not oil spills, is the largest source, and reducing it will require coordinated efforts on a number of fronts.[1]

According to the author, “When it rains, it pours”—or so a motorist caught in a sudden storm might think...