Wilson City Schools
What does one do when the city Wastewater Management Division places a mandate on all establishments involved in the preparation, pro-cessing, and serving of food to install some form of grease interceptor system within 90 days of inspection or face steep fines? This dilemma faced the Wilson County (NC) School System and its' ten school cafeterias.
The city of Wilson, NC in mid-1996 decided that it was time to put a curb to effluent grease and oils (FOG's) emptied into the sanitary sewers. Under this new ordinance, all enterprises that involved preparation of foods to install some sort of grease interceptor device. According to Mary Vann Sitton, the Director of Child Nutrition Services in the Wilson County School System, there was one simple route to take.
Through association with Andrew Etheridge, at that time a restaurant owner in Wilson and now a Big Dipper representative, Mrs. Sitton was introduced to the Big Dipper® line of products. Andrew had been working in an advisory capacity to the Wilson Wastewater Management Division during this time. After some further research, Mary Vann and her colleagues decided to install Big Dipper W-200-IS (Product Search) units into each of the ten cafeterias in the school system.
In the first year of operation, Mrs. Sitton states that the school system and the wastewater division could not be more pleased with the results. An inspector from the city monitors effluent flows from the cafeterias each month, and the results have been impressive. The flow reading of the cafeterias are always well below the 200 mg/l grease per water ratio limit set by the sewer authorities. She is also impressed with the ease of installation, maintenance, and service provided by Big Dipper®.
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