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Staff seeks FOG-ordinance revisions to ease downtown development while meeting state pretreatment rules
Summary
City staff presented a review of the fats, oils and grease (FOG) pretreatment ordinance and asked commissioners for direction to pursue ordinance revisions that would allow smaller, calculated interceptors or traps in constrained downtown sites while maintaining TCEQ compliance; staff estimated two months to return with recommendations.
City staff and a consultant briefed the City Commission on Jan. 21 about Brownsville's fats, oils and grease (FOG) pretreatment ordinance and enforcement challenges in the downtown area and asked for direction to pursue possible revisions.
Bobby Baeed of Half and Associates reviewed the state and federal background for municipal pretreatment programs, explained the functional difference between outdoor grease interceptors and indoor grease traps, and reviewed other Texas cities' approaches. He said the City's current ordinance (originally adopted in 2007 with revisions in 2012 and 2020) requires a…
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