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Food Producers or Food Service Establishments

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Food service establishments are required to follow best practices and use and maintain grease removal devices to prevent fats, oils, and grease from clogging facility and City pipes.
 

Required Maintenance

A grease interceptor removes fats, oils, and grease from water used for food preparation, dish cleaning, hand washing, and other activities before it enters the sanitary sewer. Along with best practices to manage grease, remember to use a reputable waste hauler to properly pump and maintain your grease interceptor every 90 days, at a minimum. Food producers and service establishments may be subjected to inspection fees, penalties, and possibly costly plumbing bills if these interceptors are not adequately maintained.
 
Facilities are required to submit manifests for completed maintenance activities to South Platte Renew, the maintenance providers listed below may submit manifests to South Platte Renew on the facilities' behalf.

Maintenance Providers

The following Grease Haulers are currently in compliance with South Platte Renews requirements:

All State Pumping 303-944-0071
Denver Sanitary Company 303-295-0331
Liquid Environmental Solutions 303-936-4294
McDonald Farms 303-772-4577

For Grease Haulers, additional information is on our Grease Haulers page.

Best Practices

To prevent fats, oils, and grease from becoming sewer blockages, backups, and overflows, best management practices include:
  • Use drain screens
  • Dispose of food waste in the trash
  • Dry-wipe all cookware
  • Use a waste grease bin
  • Keep cleaning products away from drains
Employees must be trained to employ these best practices. Once trained, every employee should complete an Employee Training Form (you may download our forms for your convenience in either English or Spanish, and sink signs should be hung as reminders.

Plan Reviews

All new food service establishments, as well as those undergoing renovation, are required to send construction drawings of the facility to the appropriate sanitation district agency, including plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and details of the grease removal device. Your may find your sanitation district by typing in your address. South Platte Renew will review plans submitted to the City of Littleton and the City of Englewood to ensure compliance with the Fats, Oils, and Grease Policy. Plans will be reviewed to insure compliance with applicable rules and regulations.

Facility Inspections

South Platte Renew conducts periodic inspections of businesses within our service area to insure compliance with requirements, this includes assessing the use of best practices and inspecting grease removal devices.

Purposes Of The FOG Program

Restaurants and other food establishments (this includes sandwich shops, coffee shops, small take-out operations, smoothie shops, etc.) can produce fats, oils, and grease (FOG) through routine cooking and cleaning activities. FOG can clog sewer pipes, resulting in backups into the facility, damage to the collection lines, or sewage overflows in nearby areas. The purpose of South Platte Renews FOG program is to protect the sanitary sewer and our treatment system from potentially damaging wastes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns or would like to discuss this further, please contact the Industrial Pretreatment Department at SPRpretreatment@englewoodco.gov or complete the below contact form.

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