Every commercial kitchen requires a grease interceptor to remove the grease from the sanitary system.  However what a lot of restaurant owners do not know is that grease interceptors need cleaning and maintenance.

Photo below is of a grease interceptor that has been left for months uncleaned.  Odour, corrosion, insects and vermin are a result of this fail.

 

As per Metro Vancouver GVSDD Bylaw No. 365, 2023:

10. Grease Interceptor Maintenance

10.1  Every grease interceptor must be examined and cleaned in accordance with this section 10.

10.2  A grease interceptor must be examined, and cleaned:

a.  at least once every 90 consecutive days; or

b.  when the total thickness of fats, oils and grease and solids in the grease interceptor is equal to 25% or more of the wastewater depth, whichever occurs earlier, or at any time or frequency that a Sewage Control Manager, by order, deems either sufficient or necessary to meet the purposes of section 1 of the Sewer Use Bylaw.

As always please ensure you hire a licensed grease interceptor cleaner that is experienced and professional.

James Hicks P.Eng.

Evolve Mechanical Solutions

604.837.8594

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