Grease that's a byproduct of restaurant cooking is supposed to be trapped before water leaves the drain system. And even if it does escape -- usually the product of a faulty or overfilled grease trap -- it's supposed to go into the closed sewer, not the stormwater system, where it can clog and stink up catch basins.Aren't they supposed to meet some sort of standard for grease discharge though? And they have to pay the disposal contractor a disposal fee by volume, right? And I'm pretty sure S&WB is already under an EPA consent decree to get all this in order. But here's a Brennan just dumping shit into the storm drains. By mistake, of course.
One source of some of the grease has been identified: Red Fish Grill, the longtime Bourbon Street restaurant that's part of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group. Construction workers found dirty water -- often described as grey water -- pouring out of pipes that were connected to the storm drain. The Sewerage & Water Board was called in and determined that Red Fish Grill had been mistakenly connected to a storm drain.
Monday, September 18, 2017
"Mistakenly"
Whoops!
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Bourbon Street,
New Orleans,
Sewerage and Water Board,
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