Investing in A Strainer For Your Restaurant Floor Drain Is Money Well Spent There are a number of reasons that 60% of restaurants fail within their first year. One is that most owners underestimate the large number of expenses that commercial kitchens incur. From your employees to your products, there are many parts to your […]
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Baltimore Removes Fatberg From Grease Trap Clogs WJZ in Baltimore reported on the City’s efforts to break up and remove a massive “Fatberg” that contributed to a million-gallon sewage spill. There’s no getting around it. Fatbergs are not a pretty sight. Now the City of Baltimore is working on removing a mass of grease and
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New Jersey Explores Ordinance to Deal with Grease Trap Pumping Concerns Grease traps and grease interceptors, if not maintained properly, can allow oil and grease to travel into wastewater systems and create possible health problems. The Springfield New Jersey Board of Health, during its last few meetings, has been hammering out an ordinance to regulate
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New Mexico Cracking Down on Grease Trap Cleaning New Mexico officials are cracking down on sources sending liquefied fat, oil or grease down the sewage lines headed to the Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Those items clog and damage expensive filters at the plant, which drives up operational expenses and speeds up the need to replace
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Texas Grease Trap Ordinance Looks To Eliminate FOG In Sewer System KTAB in Abiline Texas reports on a grease trap ordinance that looks to eliminate FOG in the sewer system. In this case, FOG doesn’t refer to clouds. It’s an acronym for “fats, oil, and grease”, things that can really cause problems when they make their
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Texas Grease Trap Ordinance Could Mean Restaurant Fines The Breckenridge Texas City Commission took the first steps in insure clean sewer lines with passage of a grease trap ordinance. The ordinance requires applicable facilities to install, use and maintain grease traps or interceptors, prohibits discharging of excessive fats, oils and dressings into the city’s sewer
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Hospital Cafeterias Should Replace Their Commercial Garbage Disposals It can be extremely frustrating relying on a defective commercial garbage disposal. They are supposed to be designed for high-volume uses, yet they clog easily and frequently. Nobody wants to be reaching their hands into the drain to remove the clogs, especially in a medical center cafeteria,
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Restaurant Grease Traps Polluting Rio Grande Cooking grease from Española businesses is causing water contamination in the Rio Grande and officials charged with treating the city’s water, say they need help to stop future spills. Española Wastewater Superintendent Lawrence Rhome told the city’s Public Works Committee that grease is getting into the sewer system, the
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Grease Interceptor Problem Pushing Pollution Into Michigan Pollution in the sewer system in Granger Indiana has raised questions about whether businesses are contributing to the problem by disposing food waste without using proper grease interceptors. An operator for the St. Joseph County Regional Water and Sewer District, which runs the 150-user Granger sewer system, this
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Florida Grease Trap Ordinance Leaves Business Owners With Messy Situation WFTS in Tampa Bay Florida reports that an attempt to protect Largo’s sewage from overflows is causing a major burden for a handful of business owners. Michael Brandt and Anthony Jack have kept Gulf Coast Po’ Boys open for eight years now without any other
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