Food Grease Can Ruin Your Drain

No Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) Down the Drain!

Visit the City of Albany's FOG program page.

When FOG washes down the drain, even with hot water, after it cools, it sticks to the insides of the pipes in your home and in those that connect your home or business to the City's sewer. Eventually FOG will accumulate until it blocks sewer pipes, which then can create difficult and expensive maintenance problems for owners and the City. This can also cause a health concern if raw sewage backs up into homes, businesses, or overflows into streets and storm drains. 

Garbage disposals do not keep FOG out of sewer pipes. Even products that claim to dissolve FOG may break up accumulation but that can only push the problem further down the line when the FOG hardens again. 

Click on the buttons below for more information. If you want a FREE grease scraper and lid, visit the City of Albany's website at: https://www.cityofalbany.net/pw/wastewater/grease or call them at (541) 497-6222. City of Millersburg residents and businesses are eligible for Albany's scraper and lid program because of the intergovernmental agreement we have with the City of Albany.

Help the City of Millersburg and the City of Albany keep FOG out of sewer pipes.