(A) Grease interceptor requirements:
(1) All restaurants, cafeterias, institutional kitchens, and other installations having facilities for the preparation and serving of food in quantity, laundromats, car washes, gas stations, auto machinery garages and car washes, and art shops or art galleries where the potential for discharge of grease, oils, and waxes into the sanitary sewer system exists, whose location is within the SCRWWTS's sanitary sewer service area shall be required to install a grease interceptor. A standard monitoring manhole may also be required as detailed in the city standards and specifications document and the associated detail drawings.
(2) Any facility as listed above, that is currently operating without the required grease interceptor, even though there have been no history of blockages caused at or downstream from their location, shall be required to install a grease interceptor and monitoring manhole as per the city's standards and specifications document and associated detail drawings.
(3) Any commercial or industrial facility, currently on an on-site sewer system connecting to the SCRWWTS, shall install or show proof of installation of a grease interceptor, according to the parameters of this section and in the city's standards and specifications document and associated detail drawings, prior to approval of the application.
(4) When any commercial or industrial facility is found to have grease interceptors which are inadequate to meet the requirements of this section, and is connected to the SCRWWTS, and/or is in the process of changing owners, lessees or renters, the fee simple owner shall be required to update the system in compliance with the city's standards and specifications document and associated detail drawings before the new owner or operator will be allowed to commence discharge.
(Ord. 119, passed 5-20-2009)