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Grease Interceptor Guides for Reno and Sparks Kitchens

By kitchen type and by problem: what the Environmental Control permit expects of you, what it costs to ignore, and what to do in the next hour.

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By kitchen

What each kitchen type pays per year →

Restaurants and casino kitchens

Fryer lines and 24-hour operations: the storage factor of 3 and what it does to your interval.

Food trucks and commissaries

Whose interceptor, whose permit, whose trip ticket.

Schools, hospitals, institutions

Named in the code; large tanks; the records a facilities office needs.

Buying or taking over a restaurant

The burden shifts to you the day you sign.

When something is wrong

Slow drains and smells

What it means and what to do first.

Grease water on the floor

Containment, the spill line, and who pays for the sewer.

Emergency service

Nights, weekends, mid-service.

What happens if you never pump

The timeline from a full tank to a suspended sewer connection.

By town

Sparks

SMC Title 13: Environmental Control permit, 750-gallon floor, schedule set in the permit.

Washoe County (unincorporated)

Ordinance 1615: annual inspection certificate, UPC sizing, “maintained to ensure proper operation.”

Carson City

CCMC 12.06 and the Environmental Control Authority: post-2008 install rule, 750-gallon floor, no garbage disposals.

Fernley

FMC 28.07: separators “when they are necessary,” a 100 mg/l grease limit, service shut-off as the penalty.

Before something is wrong

Trap or interceptor?

Why Reno almost always means the tank outside.

Cost and calculator

When your tank hits 25%.

Trip tickets

The three-year file.

Why enzymes are prohibited

In all three jurisdictions.

Not sure which page you are

Describe it on the phone. Diagnosis is free; the truck is not.

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