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Coverage for Commercial Premises

Coverage is by ZIP code. This page also explains why this particular subject cannot honestly be written town by town.

The short form

Calls route on ZIP codes. Town pages would be organized by the wrong unit entirely: grease rules come from whoever owns the sewer a building drains into, and a sewer service area does not follow municipal lines.

InterceptorCall is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect operators and property managers with independent contractors. Contractors and waste haulers are required to hold whatever credential and permit their state or municipality demands — ask to see them, because the manifest they leave you is a compliance record. We carry out no work, we haul nothing, we do not set prices, and we never charge the caller anything. Nothing here states the grease limit, the pumping interval or the device size that applies to any particular kitchen; those are set by your control authority and by your installation.

Routing a commercial call

We route to independent contractors who cover a given ZIP code. Coverage is not uniform — an area we cover well around one metro may have gaps elsewhere. If nobody covers yours we will say so on the call rather than take your details and leave you waiting.

The jurisdiction that matters is not the town

Grease requirements are written by the authority that owns the sewer your building drains into, under the federal requirement that each POTW develop and enforce its own specific limits. That authority is sometimes the city, often a regional district, and its service area is a different shape from any municipal boundary.

One town can drain to more than one authority. One authority can cover a dozen towns with a single ordinance. A page organized by town would be organized by the wrong unit for the thing it is about, and would tell some of its readers about a rule that does not apply to them.

Source: 40 CFR 403.5, National pretreatment standards: Prohibited discharges.

And the rules change under their own authority

Sewer use ordinances get amended locally, on local schedules, with no central publication. A national site republishing thousands of local limits would be shipping a snapshot that starts aging the day it is taken — on a page with a telephone number on it, read by somebody who may act on it.

We would rather say once, clearly, that the number is local and that you should go and get it, than say it ten thousand times with a place name changed and a figure we cannot stand behind. How to get yours.

What applies everywhere

The federal prohibitions, which apply identically everywhere. How the devices work and how they fail, which is physics rather than policy. And EPA’s own figures on the size of the problem. Those do not change at a service area boundary, and they are what this site is made of.

Source: 40 CFR 403.5, National pretreatment standards: Prohibited discharges; U.S. EPA, FOG Management and Control Program.

Have the last manifest in front of you.Date, hauler, volume removed and where it went — it is the first thing anyone asks for and it tells a contractor more about the state of the vessel than a description does. We will route you to somebody who covers your area, identified from the ZIP code of the premises, and you are never charged. Other plumbing work at the premises can be arranged through the same call.

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