From Durability & Design-Roofing Contractor Likely to Face Fines after Newly Applied Coating Washes into Creek

Roofing Contractor Likely to Face Fines after Newly Applied Coating Washes into Creek

This is a warning to everyone who puts down coatings, roof, deck, whatever...make sure it's dry so it don't wash into da creek!

A roofing contractor that applied a white acrylic coating to the roof of a commercial building in Palo Alto, Calif., is likely to face fines after a rainstorm washed paint into a nearby creek.
City officials said approximately 25 gallons of paint entered the stormwater-runoff system and washed into Matadero Creek when the storm hit early Sunday. The paint had been applied Friday and Saturday, but some apparently had not dried and cured sufficiently before rainfall arrived.

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