For Water to Flow, Tell the Grease No — Trap Grease in Cincinnati, OH

by | Sep 3, 2013 | Emergency Supplies

If you own a restaurant, you need a grease trap; it’s that simple. At one time certain restaurants without grease traps were grandfathered into the rule books in various municipalities but in recent years the push has been to bring all businesses and institutions that serve food to the public into compliance in order to better care for municipality water services. It’s not fair that the grease you dump down your drain stops up your neighbor three doors down’s pipes. So now, therefore, the law mandates that your restaurant have the ability to Trap Grease in Cincinnati, OH.

What is a grease trap? A restaurant grease trap in Cincinnati, OH is a plumbing device that catches all of the fluid that goes down a sink and separates the grease from the liquid, catches the grease in the “trap” so that it can be emptied later, and allows the liquid to continue down the drain. Most grease traps have two primary basins … the first which catches the majority of any grease present — the grease congeals, and then the remaining liquid goes to a second basin that attempts to catch whatever might have managed to get past the first.

A grease trap allows the plumbing to work as it should. When grease is introduced into plumbing pipes, the grease solidifies as it cools, which in turn causes blockage. When dirt, bacteria, grease, etc. back up and flow back into the kitchen, the clean environment where food is prepared is endangered. Restaurants that lack properly functioning grease traps when inspected by the health department risk fines that sometimes rise into the thousands of dollars.

Grease traps must be maintained with regular emptying and cleaning. If the grease trap leaks or overflows, the sanitation service that maintains the trap must be called. The importance of having and properly maintaining a grease trap cannot be over emphasized. Approximately half of all sewer overflows in the country are the direct result of clogs caused by grease that went down the drain. This results in over 10 billion gallons of raw sewage being spilled in unwanted places, each year.

Moral of the story? Have it, use it, take care of it. It sure beats having your running water shut off during a lunch rush because the pipes are backing up into the sink! An ounce of prevention here is most definitely worth a pound of cure, later!

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