In my 36 years working in the Pretreatment field, I’ve heard one question more frequently than any other: “How do I know when to service a grease separator?” Everyone from pretreatment coordinators and restaurant owners to plumbers and site designers asks it, and we’re never surprised. The entire pretreatment FOG management system depends on grease…
Control Can Be Elusive in Pretreatment’s Three-Legged Stool of grease management and compliance. In the late 1980s, The Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) provided a great example of how to maximize control when it carried out one of the most effective Pretreatment programs I’ve seen in my career. It had to implement an audacious pretreatment program…
Best Management Practices 101 Why Well Implemented BMPs = Low Effluent Numbers and Happier FSEs On a long flight about three decades ago, I sat beside a co-founder of a regional pest control company specializing in food service establishments. “We find kitchens with no food debris or water on the floor do not have insects…
