Entries Tagged Fat, Oil and Grease (FOG)

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s recently released report, State of the Sewers 2013, takes a hard-nosed look at the...

Municipal utilites have to be vigilent about preventing FOG from entering their collections systems. Grease issues cost municipalities millions of dollars every...

The Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority in Peachtree City, Ga., is a relatively small utility with only 30 employees, but it...

In the past year, we’ve posted hundreds of stories to MSWmag.com. They include everything we know you love — municipal profiles, blogs,...

Drain cleaning operators and municipal managers all have a story to tell about the out-of-the-ordinary objects recovered from pipelines and sewers, but...

In a major metropolitan area with close to 6,000 restaurants, one of the major challenges for the Pretreatment and Laboratory Services Division...

Normally Helen Cantril Dulac finds her agenda full of speaking engagements with school-age students in the Dallas area, but in the next...

Alexander City is located in central Alabama, midway between Birmingham and Montgomery. The Tallapoosa River runs nearby and feeds Lake...

The 1.5 mgd RCA Pump Station, located in a commercialized area of Deptford, N.J., always had grease problems, but they grew worse...

In the 1990s, the Town of Daphne, Ala., had one of the state's worst environmental records. Sanitary sewer overflows were a common...

The City of Westminster, Colo., a northwest suburb of Denver, has seen rapid growth over the last 40 years. The Westminster Utilities...

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Cleaning fat, oil, and grease blockages from sewers in Sierra Vista, Ariz., was an unending nightmare for Hector Hagele. He swore that...

State-of-the-art flow monitoring technology is a key to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s effort to manage and eliminate sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs),...