Keep Both your Car and the Bay Sparkling Everyone loves a clean car. Everyone also loves a clean bay. We can have both. Throughout the month of August, the City of Tacoma is holding a Twitter trivia contest and reaching out to residents to share three simple tips for washing cars in a way that helps keep Commencement Bay free of pollutants: 1. Wash your car on your lawn or gravel so soapy water doesn't flow down the street into storm drains and out to the bay. (Diluted soap doesn't harm lawns by the way.) 2. Use soaps or detergents without phosphates that deplete oxygen that fish need to survive. 3. In case some water does run off, sweep driveways and street gutters to keep dirt, leaves and trash from getting into storm drains and ending up in the bay. To "drive" home this point, each day in the month of August, the City will give away a free car wash ticket on Twitter. Why? Because using a commercial car wash is also good for Commencement Bay; the wash water used by these businesses gets treated - and sometimes recycled too. Just follow the City @CityofTacoma and respond correctly to a Puget Sound or surface water trivia question to be entered in a drawing. For contest rules and information, visit the City's website home page at CityofTacoma.org. City staff will attend community events throughout the month of August with tips and giveaways to help you wash your vehicle the fish-friendly way. Watch for them on August 17 at the LeMay - America's Car Museum drive-in movie and other events. Visit PugetSoundStartsHere.org <http://www.pugetsoundstartshere.org> to learn more about the Sound and how we can protect it.