This happened today and was sent into me. Good thing EPA or the cops were not called.

not good

Cmon Todd-You must be running out of good informative discussion material.  One has to wonder who would take a pic of this and then post it?

These Pictures were sent in by a fellow Concrete Pumper. He did not post the company name nor did he have the name in the pictures. If an Operator can do this and if an owner is ok with it then it should be ok to post it. I did not wash the pump out into the gutter or wash the concrete into the drain I just posted the pictures of it. Am I the bad guy for posting the picture or the Operator and owner for allowing this? If we would of been policing ourselves over the years we would not have huge fines and jail time now for doing it.

Todd-Sorry for being so skeptical but-I've never been a fan  anonymous posts by anonymous operators. I suppose I should consider myself fortunate that I'm not doing "hard time" for polluting not via gutters and drains mind you but during the course of pouring caissons etc in various waterways.  Not at all something I am proud of at all but impossible to avoid in many instances.  Just hoping the thought police don't come and get me now that I'm finally reaping a few bennies from 30+ yrs of pounding rocks thru pipes!  My 2 cents.  PS You do a fine job moderating this forum-Keep it up ole boy. John

I am with you brother, i think it is crazy how we can pour million and millions of yards of concrete on the ground and it is called construction but spill some on the street and you can get fined thousands of dollars and even get arrested and do jail time. I look at it like this, operators and owners will take a chance and poor a job and not make the contractor responsible for providing you will a good place, legal place for you to washout UNTIL you get hit with a $20k fine and at that point the $1,000 or $5,000 project with no place to washout will not be worth the risk. 

Remember these fines are just a way for the cities and state agencies to tax you, they get the money.

You can't tell what happened there looks to me someone was trying to clean up a mess  the rest is speculation

The guy who send me the photos said the pump broke down, another pump came and finished the job, this guy pulled up and washed out on the street. Does not matter really, that is at least a $2k fine and if it was in California (which it was not) it could even mean jail time.

Lol sorry I was logged in helping Mr ed with his account, this is Todd.

Can someone explain why we have an EPA approved "designated washout area" on a jobsite that must be used and the next lot over they are pouring a 27 yd driveway directly on the ground.

Stuff like that happens all the time in Tenn red clay mud all over the  roads mixer trucks pull into and area beside the road dump whats left in there truck police rolls by and keep on rolling, I was always hoping the EPA would crack down on driving off the street so I could get more pumping but no one cares, so I sold out and glad of it.

carry a cleanout bag on all trucks so if you get in a bind and cannot clean out anywhere, just set the bag up under hopper and clean out. Write it on the ticket so the contractor pays for disposal charges of the bag.