Fats, Oils & Grease

Protect your business and the city’s service lines: Keep Fats, Oils, and Grease OUT OF PIPES!

Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority is pleased to keep you up-to-date on the best practices to help your commercial kitchen properly dispose of Fats, Oils, and Grease. Remember, compliance not only assures that the system works properly for your business and other residents, but it also avoids costly fines for your business. If you have any questions, or if there is more we can do to help your team comply with city ordinances, please contact us. We’re here to help!

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Do’s and Don’ts for Kitchen Best Management Practices

(Available in handout form upon request.)

Following these practices can help prevent service disruptions, save money, and protect the environment.

Do’s

Do 'dry-wipe' pots, pans, and dishware prior to dishwashing
Do scrape food waste into trash
Do recycle used cooking oil
Do install screens on all kitchen drains
Do wash floor mats in a utility sink

Don’ts

Don’t pour cooking residue or wash greasy pots in the sink before you dry-wipe
Don’t put food waste down the drain
Don’t pour cooking oil down the drain
Don’t remove screens from drains
Don’t wash floor mats outside

Also, remember it’s important to:

Maintain grease trap/interceptor on a regular basis. The devices must be inspected to ensure proper functionality during each pump out event. Good operating grease trap/interceptors minimize discharges of grease to the sewer collection system. This minimizes grease related blockages in the service lines and grease-related Sanitary Sewer Overflows.

Obtain references before hiring a grease waste hauler. Some grease waste haulers unlawfully pump recycling bins without compensation. Most grease waste haulers agree to purchase the waste oil and are compensated when the bin is pumped. Make sure your vendor is complying with ordinance regulations.

Implement Kitchen Best Management Practices to reduce health hazards and overflows. Poorly maintained extraction devices cause health hazards and environmental concerns during overflows. Best practices reduce waste to dispose of and increase your revenue.

Train staff about how they can help ensure Kitchen Best Management Practices are implemented to reduce fats, oils, and grease (FOG). People are more willing to support an effort if they understand the basis for it.

For any information regarding our FOG programs, contact:

Zach Crumpler FOG Specialist:

(501) 688 - 1410

Allen Gatlin SSLRP/FOG Administrator:

(501) 688 - 1417

Ted Taylor, P.E. Engineering Services Manager:

(501) 688 - 1452

Doing your part to preserve our shared system and protect the future of the One Water we all share can start with participating in one of the FREE programs we offer, or by taking advantage of our reimbursement program that saves you thousands on replacing faulty private sewer lines that can impact the lines around you.

LRWRA offers FREE programs designed to protect the investment you’ve made into your home and the investment we’re making into protecting communities and the environment. These programs also help save ratepayers money on repairing and cleaning up after costly backups into homes or sewer releases into our environment.

Take a look at the free and easy programs we offer to help you do your part in maintaining the system.

Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority

Fats, Oils & Grease

Protect your business and the city’s service lines: Keep Fats, Oils, and Grease OUT OF PIPES!

Do’s and Don’ts for Kitchen Best Management Practices

Do’s

Don’ts

Also, remember it’s important to:

For any information regarding our FOG programs, contact:

Registered FOG Haulers

Residential Programs

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