Busted!

[elizilla]

City trucks have been roaming the neighborhood today, along with the big roto-rooter truck. They are doing something with the drains again. Steve was out there and asked them what is going on. Well, it is a grease clog. And it turns out that one of the city guys noticed a brown river of gunk leading through the snow to one of the storm drains. It was grease, illegally dumped by a local pizza place and it was caught on footage from a neighboring business's security camera. The pizza place says they hired a contractor to clean their grease traps and the contractor did it. The city guy said he is going to charge them. I guess the contractor and the pizza place will be fighting over who pays the bill. And perhaps some fines.

I wonder if that contractor dumps huge whacks of grease into storm drains, often? Seems like they'd be in more trouble than just here.

Comments

[bikergeek]

Yeah, vicarious liability for this one is going to be amusing to sort out.

Good that someone got busted for it, though, rather than leaving the taxpayers on the hook for cleanup.

[elizilla]

Well, I don't know if it is the number of restaurants on this block, or the age of the infrastructure. But I see these same trucks and guys messing with the drains in my neighborhood, pretty often. Only once has it ever affected us; I think I posted that story. The city took care of us super well that night and I have no complaints - it was actually pretty interesting. But I remember that night, they were also blaming restaurants for pouring grease down the drains.

I never saw giant drain cleaning trucks in my old neighborhood. Which was a newer sub and had no restaurants. The public utility drama over there was always water mains breaking. They would go by with a loudspeaker yelling that they were turning off our water, and when it came back on our plumbing would make these amazing burping sounds. That never happens here. I think that sub's developer had cheaped out on the water supply infrastructure.

I suppose every place has its difficulties. :-)

[bikergeek]

Yeah, everywhere has something, that's for sure.

[elizilla]

I actually kind of enjoy the flurries of activity. Makes my day at the office, more interesting.

[bikergeek]

:) Sure. At least there's something going on outside your window. There are, of course, way worse kinds of "excitement".

[devon]

Hot Damn! Yeah, there are worse things, but that environmental damage is pretty darn gross.

I enjoy reading Katherine's stories of small town excitement, too. :>
(I hope you are doing well, and I'm sorry that I unknowingly "ruined" the greens at Thanksgiving. I had no idea that my dish was one of the few gluten-free items We just casually avoid wheat by habit as a weight loss practice.)

[devon]

Oh, you're not the same guy. Oops.