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Sanitation district reports drop in sewer overflows, cites FOG inspection gains and plans enforcement ordinance
Summary
Associate Civil Engineer Patrick Krogan told the Seaside County Sanitation District that 34 scheduled FOG inspections in the quarter produced zero failures; 169 facilities are registered, 30 are out of compliance (21 missing cleaning records, 9 prior failures). Staff flagged a plan to add fines via an upcoming ordinance.
Associate Civil Engineer Patrick Krogan told the Seaside County Sanitation District on April 14 that inspections and extra flushing have contributed to a declining trend in sanitary sewer overflows.
Krogan said district staff performed 34 regularly scheduled FOG (fats, oils and grease) inspections in the quarter and found no locations over the 25% accumulated FOG limit. "We had 1 spill in 2025, which we're hoping to keep that record up," Krogan said, pointing to a 10-year overflow graph that shows a falling trend.
Krogan reported 169 facilities currently registered in the district's FOG program; 165 of…
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