On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 10:42:47 AM UTC-4, HerHusband wrote:
there are natural bacteria in the environment that eats oil..... but attempting to clean the gravel could kill that bacteria just making it worse......
OP just does not want it tracked in home. the best option, and nearly no work at all is buy some more gravel, the sme type thats there, and cover up the dirty gravel. graveldriveways being what they are like it probably has some muddy areas. buy enough to cover those too.
or check the cost of ground concrete from demos, its really cheaper than gravel but doesnt look as nice
when i used to change my own oil i had a place in the back yard where i would dump the drain oil, this long before all these enviironmental concerns. sometime later i had the area dug up, and a 16 by 20 foot slab poured for my new shed. i had dumped oil there for perhaps 20 years. i expected a gooey oily area, but nothing but clean soil.
thats when i found i was just feeding some bacteria
just like along roads, there are bacteria that eats worn tire dust.