Entries Tagged Fat, Oil and Grease (FOG)

Massive sewer accumulations of fats, oils and grease are on the rise. The system impact of FOG is greatly exacerbated by a...

How do you fight back against a fatberg? The first obvious step is to know your enemy. Fatberg is a term coined in...

As part of one of the oldest cities west of the Mississippi River, the San Antonio Water System’s wastewater collections operation has...

To say that Princeton, Texas, is growing is something of an understatement. The city’s population is on track to top 16,500 people by...

Entry 339402A century-old 30-inch cast iron water transmission main recently burst in Portland, Oregon, leaving some streets in the northeast part of...

Entry 339524Mount Gilead-Improve Water Association’s former president has been arrested and is accused of embezzling $106,000 from the Marion County, Missouri-based association. The...

Entry 339560An 800-ton fatberg was removed from a sewer in Cardiff Bay, Wales, according to itv.com. The blockage was caused by residents...

Amid the pastoral landscape of the Blue Lake Estates Community, a group of cautiously optimistic operators, officials, and suppliers gathered around the...

Brandon Ambrose and his maintenance team have enough to do maintaining 230 miles of gravity sewers, 19 miles of force main and...

The massive “fatberg” that clogged a London sewer back in September and made headlines as workers from Thames Water spent weeks removing...

If your utility could use some inspiration on how to communicate messages to the public, check out the Albuquerque Bernalillo County (New...

As the year comes to a close, we take a look at some of the most popular stories on www.mswmag.com. If you missed...

It took nine weeks, but earlier this month Thames Water in London announced that it had finally rid the city’s sewer system...

The latest fatberg making headlines is in Baltimore, Maryland.A nearly 1.2 million gallon dry-weather SSO occurred last month because of the massive...