Last week I did a story on the new owners of the Morse Theatre having to pay a vendor to do a job the city was required to do.
Fine enough, story done.
Not quite. One Pro-Joe blogger had the audacity to blame the owners of the Morse Theatre for something they never did. Joe's buddy, most likely on behalf of Joe, blamed the new Morse Theatre owner for clogging the drain. I'm here to prove Joe Moore's political pal wrong. If anyone's responsible for clogging the sewer drain, it's this guy. Blame him, he did it. I caught him in the act of grease bucket dumping waste this morning. Caught him red-handed for all to see.
Here's how the grease goes 'down the drain'.
This morning JB's Pizza's grease collecting vendor came by as he does every week - and he dumped a few gallons or so of excess bucket grease on the ground in the alley where the sewer drain was clogged last week. Here he is, starting a new grease clog.
Like I said in the story, this clog didn't happen overnight. It took years and years to clog that pipe. And if anyone's to blame for the clog getting clogged faster than it should, the blame should go to JB's pizza, grease removal vendor, for dumping hundreds of gallons of grease down this drain over the weeks and weeks - year after year. That's how long he's been doing this slimey job. Anyone in their right mind knows, grease clogs the drains faster than anything else out there. That's why JB's cooks and kitchen people don't just pour the grease down their own drain pipes.
Plus, I believe this is not the proper environmental way of removing the excess grease from these 55 gallon grease drums by pouring the waste on the ground.
But this vendor doesn't care at all. He's never cared. It's because he didn't have to pay to clean it up. And to make matters worse, Joe's people want to place the blame on someone else, like the new Morse Theatre. Shame on them.
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I see that the flat bed truck holding 55gal. drums of grease is no longer parked in back. Does this mean that JB's has finally got their act together? Take Leona's for example, I do not see them operating this way. I stopped by for a slice last night and took a close look at the condition behind the counter--talk about poor housekeeping. For a minute I thought I was in a machine shop. I can only imagine what the rest of the place is like.
And you left with the slice? How about calling the health department?
Hey Craig..........
I don't know how to send you an email, but this story from ABC on this women is amazing.
They call her the video vigilante.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=investigative&id=5713245
Check out her website.
Lake Street Lookout
Sick of Dems-- Yes I did leave with a slice of "cardboard." We ONLY eat at Last Resort JB's in a pinch. We never order a full pizza because of their quality. Would absolutely never touch the other menu items. They fill the "cheap" niche pretty good. The combination of sloppy, dirty and garbage-like taste is why they only get $5.50 from us each month or two.
I hope someone is sending these photos and a link to this site to the Streets and Sanitation dude that screamed at the Morse Theater people.
Such a shame.
oh and as far as Pizza goes... Gullivers all the way!!!
Unless Pizza Capri moves here... then I can get my gourmet Pizza I loved so much! (Gosh, I miss Pizza Capri)
Is this a storm drainage sewer?
If so, is it's destination the Lake?
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WHAT INTEST ME IN THIS MESS-
JB'S IS A BIG POLITICAL DONATION TO JOMO-
Bill,
No wastewater from the sewers goes into the lake. I believe it goes into the deep tunnel or is treated and then sent down the Chicago River on its way the Mississippi.
Craig,
What you caught on video may be a violation of City health, IEPA and EPA regulations. I am sure someone at the IEPA would be interested in your story. They are very friendly and always have time to explain things to you. Give them a ring.
WHAT INTEST ME IN THIS MESS-
Umm... what?
rainwater isn't considered wastewater, and it's destination is most likely the lake
and being an open street drain, that is definitely not a waste water drain. but in either case, it isn't legal to pour grease into either type of drain
The destination for rainwater is waterways.........AFTER it has been treated. That is the concept behind Deep Tunnel. Hold the water from massive rains until you can treat it then release it. As opposed to just releasing it into the lake
As I said before, sewage is not dumped into Lake Michigan by Chicago. The Chicago River, the Deep Tunnel.
that reminds me of a quote from a recent Office episode - "its like eating a hot circle of garbage"
"Chicago and 51 older municipalities in Cook County have combined sewer systems......When the urban area grew and treatment plants were at capacity there was no alternative but to allow the excess mixture of raw sewage and stormwater to spill directly into the rivers and canals as "combined sewer overflow," or "CSO." This meant that much untreated sewage, diluted with storm runoff, was bypassing treatment plants and polluting area lakes, rivers, and streams, and also causing street and basement flooding. A better solution had to be found....The completion of this entire project, along with local municipal sewer upgrades and connections to make use of TARP's outlet capacity?
is rp on the tarp map?
http://www.mwrd.org/plants/tarpmap.htm
"Chicago and 51 older municipalities in Cook County have combined sewer systems. This means when rain falls, storm runoff drains into a combined sewer where it mixes with the sewerage flow from homes and industry. The net result is one massive quantity of dirty water! A system which was designed to treat 2 billion gallons of wastewater per day may be inundated with more than 5 billion gallons of rainwater runoff (about 1" of rain) during a single rainstorm.........When the urban area grew and treatment plants were at capacity there was no alternative but to allow the excess mixture of raw sewage and stormwater to spill directly into the rivers and canals as "combined sewer overflow," or "CSO." This meant that much untreated sewage, diluted with storm runoff, was bypassing treatment plants and polluting area lakes, rivers, and streams, and also causing street and basement flooding"
here's the map of the system;
http://www.mwrd.org/plants/tarpmap.htm
do you see the rp area on the it?
"The completion of this entire project, along with local municipal sewer upgrades and connections to make use of TARP's outlet capacity"
so currently, at some point or another, that grease is making it's way to the waterways
I don't understand why you don't just call 311 and repot, wounldn't that be an easy solution?
sorry about the interrupted previous post, but, i don't know the details of that industry, but what he's doing may be legal if it's considered a negligible amount.
the big no-nos that are required by the epa to be kept out of the atmosphere are the refrigerants, chloroflourocarbons, for a/c and refrigeration, but there are legal guidelines/amounts that can be released. so...........
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