wash-water

noun, waste water resulting from the cheese production process

“Well, whey isn’t as bad as this other stuff. Wash-water would be the worst.”

“The water from washing out the vats, it’d have some chlorine and stuff in it, eh?”
“Whey and wash-water, wash-water and well, chlorine… milkstone remover. You had to have it. You had to use it.

“They had no use for the whey, so then they had to get rid of it somewhere … You spray it on the old pastures. It was safe, if it was sprayed, you know, sprayed right it was okay. But the wash-water, that’s what was the problem. Acid, and it carried soap and chlorine”
“It was starting to affect the fish probably.”