I work for a contracted company running the floor scrubber every morning at a big box store. The past 6 months I have emptied my dirty water tank into the store's mop sink that goes into public sewer. This box store just so happens to move lots and lots of concrete, so it inevitably ends up in my machine and has built up to clog the mop sink drain. The store has a plumber that is allegedly replacing all the drains with larger drains to handle to concrete more efficiently. This work has been ongoing (with no visible progress) over the last two months.
As of two weeks ago the mop sink drain is too clogged to even drain 5 gallons of mop water. There is no way it will begin to drain the 35 gallon tank on the scrubber. Since the drain has been out of commission I have been keeping up floors with a dust mop and spot mopping. This week the main manager is back on Monday and tells me her floors look awful and 'must be cleaned this week'. I agreed and suggested hiring a new plumber. I continued on with my sweeping only to have her stop me later and tell me (while looking away) that the guy that used to do my job emptied the machine outside. That's illegal. The drain is directly over a stream that runs all through my town then into our local lake. There are fish in the stream. I contacted my direct manager about what I should do concerning the pressure from the store manager. ( I'm feeling a bit bullied TBH) He informed me that we are always supposed to empty the machine outside. I explained that it's illegal. All he said is “that's what we was told”.
I'm not dumping this machine illegally for these peons, but I can't just quit. They'll find the next poor sap, that doesn't take time to question things, to dump it for them. So what do I do? Call the Health Department and tell them my store wants to know if they can dump in this stream? Call the EPA and tell them I'm being bullied into committing illegal dumping?
Both of these companies can afford to do things right. What would you do?