GREASE TRAP TECHNOLOGY has remained virtually unchanged since the first patent was issued to Nathaniel Whiting in 1884. It wouldn’t be until many years later that standards would be adopted to ...

Every night, an employee at Eda Johnson’s new restaurant in the Stadium District dons a mask and heads downstairs to a storage room with a clipboard and a pen. The mission is to scrape the gunk out of ...

Grease traps, like the one that a 3-year-old fell into Monday in Rochester, present bigger hazards than just an unpleasant smell. Susan Gresh, owner of Biotech Drainline Services, explained that ...

Grease traps are required to be inspected monthly and cleaned before the amount of grease exceeds 25 percent of the interceptor’s capacity. Written logs of grease trap inspections, cleaning and ...

TUPELO — Beneath any city is a vast network of pipes, running clean water and pulling foul water away. But those municipal bloodlines can become clotted, often with grease runoff. It’s an issue city ...

A state proposal named in honor of a 3-year-old Rochester boy to improve grease trap safety moved one step closer to becoming a reality after a unanimous vote by the state Assembly Wednesday. Bryce's ...

Tacoma restaurant owners say the city’s rules on grease traps are costing them time and money, stifling development and discouraging culinary creativity. They want relief. The City Council, in what it ...

Rochester, N.Y. – Monroe County officials began conducting safety sweeps on grease traps at local businesses Thursday. This comes after a three-year-old boy died last week when he fell into a grease ...

Behind a market in southwest Houston on Tuesday, Elton Childs and his crew dragged the cover off a grease trap and used a vacuum to suck brown, putrid sludge out of the hole. The 900-gallon grease ...

ROCHESTER, NY (WHAM) - Following a more than month-long safety sweep of grease traps in Monroe County, officials say they're finally done. County inspectors assessed 2,492 grease traps, finding only ...