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Plano reiterates grease-trap rules and inspection steps for food-service businesses
Summary
A City of Plano environmental official summarized the city’s Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) inspection program, outlining permit, servicing and recordkeeping requirements tied to the city’s liquid waste management ordinance and the measurement standard inspectors use to judge compliance.
Katie Masucci, with the City of Plano’s Environmental Health and Sustainability Department, summarized the city’s Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) inspection program and the requirements businesses that operate grease traps must meet.
The program “began in 2018 with city council's approval of Plano's liquid waste management ordinance,” Masucci said, and is intended to prevent fats, oils and grease from entering sanitary sewer lines and causing sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). “An SSO is an unauthorized discharge of raw sewage into the environment,” she said.
The program matters because when FOG accumulates in sewage lines it can clog pipes and force…
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