24/7 grease trap & interceptor service
Our grease trap cleaning Inglewood CA service keeps kitchens from Market Street to the Hollywood Park district running between inspections and event nights. We pump interceptors and small traps, measure what was in them, and hand you paperwork that lines up with the city's FOG wastewater discharge permit. Call (424) 573-8021 to set up a visit.
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Call (424) 573-8021Inglewood runs its own FOG control program instead of leaving restaurants to a county agency. Chapter 10, Article 17 of the Inglewood Municipal Code, Sections 10-219 through 10-228, was adopted in 2010 and is administered by the Public Works Department under the Director of Public Works. It applies to food service establishments that discharge to the city sewer, and the Director of Building and Safety approves grease interceptor designs.
Before discharging kitchen wastewater, a food service establishment needs a FOG wastewater discharge permit from Public Works. The permit is tied to a specific business and operation, carries an initial fee and an annual inspection and control fee, and cannot be transferred, so a new owner must apply for a fresh one. City inspectors may enter during normal business hours to inspect and sample.
Section 10-223 sets the maintenance standard. Grease and solids together may not exceed 25 percent of the total liquid depth of the interceptor, every interceptor must be maintained at least once every six months, and where no data-based interval has been set the code calls for complete pump-out and cleaning quarterly. The city can change the frequency in your permit. Regular grease interceptor cleaning on that schedule is the core of compliance.
Section 10-224 requires permittees to keep manifests, receipts and invoices for cleaning, grease removal and disposal for at least four years and show them on request. Kitchens must also follow BMPs such as drain screens, separate waste cooking oil storage and staff training. The program supports the State Water Board's statewide sanitary sewer order, which expects sewer owners to control FOG.
Pump-out coming due? A single call puts you on the route.
Call (424) 573-8021Downtown Inglewood along Market Street mixes long-standing soul food spots, Caribbean and West African kitchens, cafes and newer restaurants drawn by the Crenshaw/LAX light rail line. Fried catfish, oxtail stews, jerk chicken and plantains put a steady stream of rendered fat and fryer oil into small traps, many of them in older storefront buildings.
La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard carry the city's busiest strip-center dining: burger stands, taquerias, wing shops, Belizean and Mexican kitchens, and chain fast food. Manchester Boulevard and Century Boulevard add drive-through restaurants, donut shops and hotel kitchens. Fryer-heavy menus produce a thick floating cap, while tortilla and batter starch settle into a dense layer that needs a full grease trap pumping rather than a skim.
The Hollywood Park district has changed the mix most. SoFi Stadium, the YouTube Theater, Intuit Dome and the surrounding retail and residential blocks bring stadium concessions, club-level kitchens and new restaurants, while the Kia Forum on Manchester and Prairie runs concert-night catering.
Institutional kitchens round out the picture. Centinela Hospital Medical Center runs a cafeteria and patient-meal kitchen around the clock, and schools, senior housing and church halls in Morningside Park and Fairview Heights cook in volume on predictable schedules.
Floor sink backing up mid-service? Trucks roll day and night.
Call (424) 573-8021Few cities of Inglewood's size host this many large events. Rams and Chargers games at SoFi Stadium, Clippers games at Intuit Dome and concerts at the Kia Forum send crowds through nearby restaurants before and after the gates open, and kitchens on Prairie, Manchester and Century can see several days of normal volume in a single night. Upcoming Olympic events at both venues will add to that.
That surge makes timing more important than the calendar. A trap pumped on schedule can hit the 25 percent limit after a long homestand or a run of concerts, so we plan visits around the event calendar and avoid street closures and traffic control. Being near LAX adds hotel, airline catering and late-night kitchens along Century Boulevard that cook nearly around the clock.
Many Inglewood commercial buildings date from the mid-twentieth century, with older laterals and modest slopes. Grease that slips past a full trap settles in those lines, so slow drains after an event weekend often point to a device that needed service sooner.
FOG inspection on the calendar? Book the pump-out before it.
Call (424) 573-8021We schedule around prep and service hours, and on event days we arrive early enough to finish before road closures begin. Each visit follows the same steps so the paperwork matches what the city expects.
Every grease trap cleaning visit ends with a manifest you can file for the four-year retention period in Section 10-224.
Prefer service after closing? Overnight crews are standard.
Call (424) 573-8021Small grease traps in Market Street cafes, La Brea taquerias and Crenshaw wing shops fill quickly because they hold so little. We pump the unit completely, clear the solids, wipe down the baffles and check the flow restrictor, then suggest an interval that keeps you under the 25 percent mark set in Inglewood's code.
How grease trap pumping works →In-ground interceptors serving Inglewood hotels, hospital kitchens and Hollywood Park restaurants build up hard cap grease and packed solids. We remove the entire contents, break up the cap, scrape walls and baffles, and inspect tees and lids so the unit separates grease properly before your next Public Works inspection.
How interceptor cleaning works →Recurring interceptor pumping suits Inglewood kitchens that the city has placed on a quarterly or permit-set schedule. We track your interval, add visits around SoFi Stadium, Intuit Dome and Kia Forum event stretches, and issue a manifest each time for the records your FOG wastewater discharge permit requires.
How interceptor pumping works →Want a complete evacuation and a signed manifest? Give us a call.
Call (424) 573-8021We serve all of Inglewood, including Downtown and Market Street, the Hollywood Park and stadium district, Morningside Park, Fairview Heights, Century Heights, North Inglewood and the Century Boulevard hotel corridor near LAX, plus nearby Hawthorne, Lennox, Westchester and the Crenshaw corridor.
Unsure how big your interceptor is? A technician can talk it through.
Call (424) 573-8021We lower a measuring pole or sludge judge into the interceptor, read the floating grease layer and the settled solids layer, and add them together. That combined depth is compared to the total liquid depth of the unit. If grease and solids together reach a quarter of the liquid depth, the device is due for a complete pump-out.
Often it is. A busy game day can fill a trap quickly, and once grease reaches the outlet it starts coating the downstream pipe and slowing drainage. If sinks are still slow after pumping, the lateral may hold hardened grease, and jetting or a camera inspection is the next step. Recurring slow drains after events usually mean the interval should be shortened.
Article 17 treats a grease trap serving individual fixtures as a device for sites where an interceptor is impossible or impracticable, so the city decides case by case. Where an under-sink HGI is allowed, it holds only a small volume and may need pumping every week or two in a busy kitchen.
The permit does not transfer. Article 17 says a permit issued to one owner or operation is void if it is transferred, so a buyer must apply to Public Works for a new FOG wastewater discharge permit before operating. Ask the seller for past manifests so you know the interceptor's condition and recent service history.
The code sets a six-month floor, but where a data-based frequency has not been established it calls for complete pump-out and cleaning quarterly. Once measured grease levels support a longer or shorter interval, Public Works can set that frequency in your permit. Keeping depth readings on every manifest is how a kitchen builds that data.
At least four years. Article 17 requires permittees to keep manifests, receipts and invoices for cleaning, maintenance, grease removal and disposal for that period and to make them available to the city on request. We recommend keeping paper copies on site and a scanned set off site in case of a fire or ownership change.
Treat the event calendar as your service calendar. A week with Clippers home games and a sold-out Forum show can load a trap the way a slow month would, so book an extra grease trap cleaning right after the busiest stretch. That way the device starts the next run of events with its full working volume.
Section 10-223 requires food service establishments to follow kitchen best management practices at a minimum, including drain screens, segregating waste cooking oil for recycling, disposing of food waste in the trash rather than the drain, and training employees. Inspectors may ask staff about these practices, so post them near dish and prep sinks.
Under Article 17, the Director of Building and Safety approves grease interceptor designs, while Public Works handles the FOG wastewater discharge permit. Sizing follows the California Plumbing Code. Bring both departments in early, since an outdoor interceptor affects site plans, excavation and the opening date of new projects around SoFi Stadium.
Hospital kitchens cook every day of the year, so interceptors fill at a steady, predictable rate. We set a fixed grease trap cleaning interval from measured grease levels, schedule visits during low-traffic hours near loading docks, and supply manifests that fit easily into facility compliance binders for city review and internal audits.
Stop draining to the device, keep grease out of storm drains, and call for pumping. Article 17 requires spills that could cause a sanitary sewer overflow to be reported to the city by phone, with written confirmation within five working days. Our manifest documents what we found and removed.
Yes. Many strip centers on La Brea and Crenshaw have interceptors under customer parking. We schedule visits before opening or after closing, cone off the work area, and bring enough hose to reach the manholes without blocking driveways or neighboring tenants. Traffic-rated lids should be checked for cracks at each visit.
Truck, crew and manifest, all arranged in one phone call.
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