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10 • REGULARTrinity Bay Conservation District (Chambers County)

GREASE/GRIT TRAP ORDINANCE

Presented in: Board of Directors Regular Meeting - July 09, 2024 on 2024-07-09
Meeting Agenda PDF

Official Roll-Call Vote

Restrains Gov't • 6.7/10 Impact Weight
PASSED (4 - 0)
“Adjourn”
AR
Annette Rayburn
Director, Place 3
YES
LH
Lester Hankamer
Director, Place 4
YES
JW
Justin Woody
Director, Place 5
ABSENT
VC
Victor Caraway
Director, Place 1
YES
RN
Richard Nicely
Director, Place 2
YES
MW
Michael Winzer
President
ABSENT

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

GREASE/GRIT TRAP ORDINANCE General Manager Shadden — Implementing a grease/grit trap ordinance, a grease trap is required for all facilities, including Municipal, State or Federal which business activities is the source of cooking grease, oil and the sewer, such as restaurants, cafeterias and food processing plants and is locates in an area that has adopted an ordinance. TCEQ requires us to do this. We also have problems with grease for these places that are putting grease in the traps. The grit traps are required for car washes and wash spaces that have also adopted the ordinance. Mike has put together an ordinance, and this is actually Jack in the Box at their sewer pump station right now (photo shown). They actually have a grease trap at Jack in the Box but they are not cleaning it and it is overflowing in the pump station and clogging the pumps up. This is going to be something that we are required to do by TCEQ that if they do not have a grease trap, we are going to have to require them to do this. That is going to be like Cattleman’s, the old gas station, there is no grease trap in there and we are there maybe once a month and having to hire a flush truck at $4,000 - $5,000 to come and unstop the line because it is full of grease. President Caraway — Are we going to have to inspect these? General Manager Shadden — Yes. President Caraway — On a semi-annual or what? Mike Will, District Employee — In the ordinance that I wrote up, depending on how long it is used, thi

Bastiat Liberty & Property Rights Analysis

This motion is scored as RESTRAINS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 6.7/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, voting YES on measures that cap or reduce ad valorem tax burdens, expand taxpayer exemptions, retire debt early, enforce competitive bidding caps, or remove regulatory/zoning barriers to private property rights earns a positive Pro-Liberty score.