5/1/2007   City steps up its fight to keep grease from sewers For first time, City of Houston restaurants may be required to clean their traps

11/2/2005   Company fined dumping grease into Tacoma storm drain Metro Rooter and Plumbing has been fined $10,000 by the state Ecology Department because one of its employees dumped approximately 4,000 gallons of kitchen grease and waste water into a Tacoma-area storm drain.

4/1/2008   Cops raid Thunderbolt Products in environmental bust More than three dozen law enforcement officers descended upon Thunderbolt Products on morning of Tuesday April , 2008 to execute an environmental search warrant.

7/11/2005   Food-Service Establishment Wastewater Characterization ood-servicee stablishments that use on-site waste watertreatment systems are experiencing pretreatment system and/or drain field hydraulic and/or organic overloading. This study included characterization of four wastewater parameters (five-day biochemical oxygen demand [BOD5]; total suspended solids [TSS]; fats, oil, and grease [FOG]; and flow) from 28 restaurants located in Texas during June, July, and August2002. The field sampling methodology included taking a grab sample from each restaura

7/2/2002   Grease is the Word for ICC Code Modifications Many municipalities have been forced to update their discharge ordinances to include tight pollutant discharge limits. Many municipalities are implementing pump-out and maintenance requirements that will influence type, size, and maintenance proceedures for grease interceptors.

11/8/2006   How Potable Water Rises to the Top of Skyscrapers High-rise buildings decorate the landscape of our major cities across our great nation. Not only are they a challenge to build architecturally, but there are also many other challenging factors that go into each one’s design, such as pumping water. Few people think about how the water gets to the top floors of these buildings for every day living purposes such as drinking, bathing and mechanical uses such as cooling towers and supplying HVAC equipment.

10/28/2008   Practical Solutions for Optimizing Steel Mill Wastewater Treatment Plants

4/17/2006   Recommendations for Designing Grease Interceptors and the Added Benefits of Constructing them with Precast Concrete Large precast concrete grease interceptors have a proven history of adequately separating grease from wastewater before being discharged into sewers at regulation quality. This is precisely what jurisdictions want a grease interceptor to do. But as more of these large precast grease interceptors are specified, questions arise about how to size and configure them. The Water and Wastewater Section of National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) recently sponsored research on large-volume grease in

10/28/2008   RECYCLING Of USED LEAD-ACID BATTERIES