Best Management Practices BMP for Food Service Generators and the Permitting of Grease Trap Waste Tr

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Best Management Practices (BMP) for Food Service
Generators and the Permitting of Grease Trap
Waste Transporters

• Presented By
• Emelie Gary,
• Pretreatment/Lab Coordinator
• City of Lake Charles, Wastewater
• August 2006

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The 1 problem pollutant
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Grease
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Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO)
Caused by blocked sewer lines and lift stations

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Additional Problems Caused by OG

• Interferes with Wastewater Plant Operations
• Corrosive to pipes and fixtures
• Health, Safety and Environment issues for City
  employees and citizens
• Odor and nuisance problems

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Cost to the City

• 100,000 /Year in operating costs.
• Uses up the wet well capacity, causing higher
  electricity usage
• Wears out pumps at the lift stations, etc.
• Personnel cost for time to remove accumulated
  grease in sewer lines, lift stations, etc.
• Cost of equipment and fuel to remove grease
• Causes higher organic loading at Wastewater
  treatment plants

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Old Pretreatment Method

• Situated to issue a Wastewater Discharger Permit
  to all restaurants regardless of their volume.
• Typical permit included an annual permit fee,
  reporting requirements and quarterly or
  semi-annual sampling of the final discharge.

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Problems with Old Pretreatment Method for Food
Services

• Very Expensive
• - Permit fee
• - Sampling costs
• - Personnel time
• Complicated
• - Reporting requirements
• - Analytical results
• - Sampling

• Time Consuming
• - Monitoring
• - Education
• Confusing and Difficult
• - Constant turn-over of
• Management

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Solution to OG Problem
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Advantages of BMP for Food Service Generators

• Inexpensive
• - No Permit fee
• - No Sampling costs
• - Little Personnel time
• Simple
• - No Reporting requirements
• - No Analytical results
• - No Sampling

• Brief
• - Common Sense
• Practices
• Clear Easy
• - Turn-over of Management
• Will Not be a Problem

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BMP for Food Service Generators

• Have the choice of accepting the conditions of
  the Best Management Program in lieu of permitting

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Solution to OG Problem
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BMP for Food Service Generators
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Solution to OG Problem
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BMP for Food Service Generators
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Solution to OG Problem
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BMP for Food Service Generators
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BMP for Food Service Generators
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Enforcement Plan for Transporters
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Enforcement Plan for Transporters
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Enforcement Plan for Transporters
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Enforcement Plan for Transporters
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Enforcement Plan for Transporters
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• Permit
• Expensive
• - Permit Fee 486.67
• - Analytical 185.00
• - Total Annually 671.67
• Complicated
• - Reporting
• - Sampling
• - Analytical Results
• Time Consuming
• - Education
• - Monitoring
• Confusing Difficult
• - Constant Change in
• Management

• BMP
• Inexpensive
• - Manifests lt 5.00
• annually
• Simple
• - Manifest
• - Permitted Transporters
• Brief
• - Common Sense Practices
• Clear Easy
• - Transporters are
• accountable

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Please Help Save Our Sewers from the Grease Beast!
Created by Kris Dyer
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Please Help Save Our Sewers from the Grease Beast!

• Questions?
• Emelie Gary
• Pretreatment/Lab Coordinator
• City of Lake Charles, Wastewater
• [phone]
• or
• Email egary_at_mail.city-lakecharles.org