Waffle House Lawsuit Grease Trap Overflow Smothered and Covered Property WVTM in Birmingham Alabama reports that grease and sewage from a nearby Waffle House grease trap overflow caused thousands of dollars in damage when it seeped onto an Alabama man’s property, he said in a lawsuit. Mack Crook Jr. of Anniston is seeking $800,000 from […]
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Florida Restaurant’s Grease Spill Flows Down Street Kevin Thompson of the Palm Beach Post wrote a February 2017 story about how a food grease trap overflowed outside Mulligan’s Beach House restaurant in Lake Worth Florida, causing a sizable amount of grease to spill onto the sidewalks and down the street. A grease tank trap overflowed outside Mulligan’s
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FOG Grease Trap Ordinance Causing Big Problems For Small Businesses WTVY in Dothan, Alabama reports that about 30 percent of restaurants in Dothan haven’t become compliant with the city’s new FOG ordinance. The ordinance is aimed at eliminating fats, oil, and grease from the city’s wastewater system. That prompted some city commissioners Tuesday to urge
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Keyser To Go After Neglected Grease Trap Cleaning Liz Beavers of the Mineral Daily News-Tribune wrote a January 2017 story about how with the help of the recycling company that collects the grease, the City of Keyser is planning to crack down on those businesses whose failure to clean out their grease traps is creating
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Grease Trap Mandate Causing Problems for Tri State Businesses Some Evansville business owners are running into a financial roadblock because of a recent grease trap ordinance. According to Evansville Water and Sewer officials, the ordinance requires restaurants to expand the size of their grease traps. Officials say grease mixed with heavy rain can displace the
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Tennessee Jail Evacuation Prompts Grease Trap Installation Brad Hicks of The Erwin Record wrote an October 2016 story about inmates returning to the downtown Erwin facility after repairs had been made to the jail’s plumbing system including the installation of a grease trap in the correctional facility’s commercial kitchen. The necessary plumbing repairs are now complete
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Madison Increasing Sewer Charges For Commercial Kitchen Grease Interceptor Dean Mosiman of The Wisconson State Journal wrote an October 2016 story about the city of Madison Wisconsin proposing a new billing class for restaurants whose effluent is more expensive to treat than residential output because the grease interceptor in many commercial kitchens not being cleaned
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DuBois City Council Targets Greasy Restaurants Restaurants in DuBois that do not have grease traps and interceptors will now be required to get them. The city council heard first reading of a new ordinance last month and they approved it last night. Restaurants now have 90 days to pay a $100 fee to get a
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Insufficient Grease Trap Pumping Causes Smelly Situation Mary Shinn of The Durango Herlad wrote an October 2016 story about a restaurant in San Francisco who failed to monitor their grease trap pumping closely enough and it caused a smelly situation behind Francisco’s Building. Water was bubbling up from a grease trap onto Narrow Gauge Avenue behind
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Grease Traps Stop Sludge From Clogging Sewers It’s a nasty and costly issue that cities like Kennewick have to deal with. Grease. And as each restaurant opens, additional fat, oil and grease threaten sewer lines. KEPR learned how Kennewick is preventing sludge buildup while saving taxpayers a lot of money. Coffee beans grinding. And the
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