In the midst of massive capital improvement expenditures to address infiltration and inflow in compliance with EPA Capacity, Management, Operation and Maintenance (CMOM) regulations, William Armes saw that he was staring down a bigger problem. Armes is pretreatment manager for ReWa (Renewable Water Resources), formerly known as the Western Carolina Regional Sewer Authority. He couldn’t ignore the effects of increasing development and population growth on his grease control program. He needed a plan.From 1990 to 2000, the eight-county area referred to as upstate South Carolina, which includes the authority’s five-county service territory, saw a 160 percent increase in developed acres,
