Wet Waste Interceptors Keep Your Commercial Kitchen Up and Running Smoothly When your restaurant’s sink gets clogged, you not only have a sink full of slimy, dirty water, you have money going down the drain. A blocked drain can bring your commercial kitchen to a complete standstill. You won’t have clean dishes and you may […]
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Grease Trap Overflow Backs Up Sewer Line Near Mississippi Restaurant The aroma surrounding the Golden Arches of College Park was anything but appetizing Friday. Sewage was bubbling over from a manhole along Highway 11-80 next to the restaurant. David Nickles, the brave Public Works employee who came to fix the situation, says it’s an unpleasant
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Keeping Fats, Oils and Grease Out of Oregon Sewers from Grease Traps Oakley Taylor calls herself the grease queen. Not because she is a fan of fried food, but because she runs the FOG or fats, oils and grease program for the city of Bend. “Your grease in your restaurant, it’s like garbage out on
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Massachusetts Grease Trap Regulations Proposed A draft regulation would require food establishments to install internal grease traps and incorporates a host of safeguards to prevent fats, oils and greases (FOG) from entering the sewer system. The Board of Selectmen got its first look at the draft regulation for grease trap requirements that was put together
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Grease Trap Mandate Considered in Pennsylvania The Ligonier Township Municipal Authority board wants to cut the fat from its sewer system’s diet. The board is reviewing a draft resolution that will require any establishment producing fats, oils and greases to install a grease trap or interceptor to prevent damage to the sewer system. “The idea
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Grease Trap Plans Force Tennessee Restaurants To Close Changes are coming to downtown Knoxville next year as two longtime Market Square restaurants plan to close their doors for good. Shonos in the City said Friday it will close in January for a number of reasons, one of which is new requirements for grease collection. “(KUB)
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North Carolina City Regulates Grease Traps To Prevent Clogged Pipes The new wastewater treatment facility in Franklin North Carolina cost the town more than $5 million to build, but within months of its summer 2013 opening, superintendent Wayne Price noticed a problem. “Within six months of putting that into operation, we had fats build up
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Philadelphia Restaurants Compost Their Garbage City officials are moving ahead with a plan that encourages Philadelphia restaurants to turn their food waste into compost, rather than just throwing it into a garbage disposal. Restaurants in the city are now required to put virtually all of their grindable food waste into garbage disposals, and they face
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Grease From Restaurant Drain Clogs Sewer Line in Indiana The Fort Branch town council is concerned that restaurants are not properly disposing of their grease. Town Council President, Tom Wallace, says a sewer line was found clogged with grease on Hillcrest Street, west of Highway 41. Wallace says he suspects the grease came from a
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Iowa City Looks To Amp Up Their Fight Against Fats, Oil and Grease from 3 Compartment Sinks The Sioux City City Council heard a proposal to deal with left over grease at restaurants, hospitals, daycares and even nursing homes. It’s called the Fats, Oil Grease Ordinance. The goal is to be proactive, by making sure