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Denver, Colorado

Grease Trap Service For Denver Kitchens And Restaurants

Denver runs on city sewer, so our septic work sits on the unincorporated county land around the city. Inside Denver, the work is grease traps for commercial kitchens.

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Denver, Colorado

Septic and grease trap service in Denver

Denver proper is a sewer city. The City and County of Denver collects wastewater through Denver Water and Metro Water Recovery, so a home inside city limits almost never has a septic tank. If you searched for septic service in Denver and you live in Park Hill, Berkeley, Wash Park, or any standard city neighborhood, the odds are very high that your problem is a sewer line or a plumbing clog rather than a septic system.

That does not mean there is no septic work in the Denver market. It means the work sits just outside the city line. Unincorporated Adams County to the north and east, unincorporated Arapahoe County to the southeast, and unincorporated Jefferson County to the west all carry properties on onsite wastewater treatment systems, and many of those owners give a Denver mailing address. Those tanks need pumping, inspection, repair, and permits like any rural system.

The other half of our Denver work is commercial, and it is the bigger half. Denver runs one of the densest restaurant scenes in the Mountain West. Every commercial kitchen on Larimer, Federal, Colfax, South Broadway, and RiNo runs a grease trap or an in ground interceptor, and every one of them has to be pumped on a schedule and documented for inspection. That is straightforward work we do every week.

We are family owned and based in Westminster, about twenty minutes from downtown. Tell us the address and what you are seeing, and we will tell you honestly whether this is a septic job, a grease trap job, or something you should hand to a sewer contractor instead.

What we do here

Commercial grease trap service in Denver

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Septic service for Denver area properties

Local conditions

Local context for Denver property owners

County
Adams County, Arapahoe County, and Jefferson County
Septic or sewer
Inside the City and County of Denver, properties are on municipal sewer. Onsite septic systems around the Denver market sit on unincorporated county land at the edges of the city, mainly in Adams County toward Henderson and the airport corridor, in Arapahoe County southeast of the city, and in Jefferson County west toward the foothills.
Soil and site conditions
The soils around Denver run from tight clay on the eastern plains to sandy loam near the South Platte floodplain and rocky ground as you move west. Clay drains slowly and is hard on a leach field, sandy ground drains fast and can push effluent through before the soil finishes treating it. Both conditions shorten the interval between pumpings compared to ideal ground.
Permit authority
There is no septic permitting inside the City and County of Denver because there are no permitted onsite systems there to speak of. Around the city, Tri-County Health successor agencies handle it by county: the Adams County Health Department for unincorporated Adams County, Arapahoe County Public Health for unincorporated Arapahoe County, and Jefferson County Public Health for unincorporated Jefferson County. Denver Department of Public Health and Environment handles commercial grease interceptor requirements for kitchens inside the city.
Typical system age
Systems near the Denver line tend to date from the 1950s through the 1980s, installed while those parcels were still farm and ranch ground. Steel tanks, undersized leach fields, and missing risers are common on systems of that age, which is why an inspection during a pumping visit matters more than the pumping itself.
Response time
Downtown Denver is roughly twenty minutes from our Westminster yard, so restaurant grease trap routes and same day septic calls around the city are both realistic.

County septic permit rules that apply here

Septic permits, inspections, and transfer of title rules are set by the county, not the city. Read the guide for your county before you file anything.

Areas we cover around Denver

  • RiNo and Larimer restaurant corridor
  • South Broadway and Baker kitchens
  • Colfax Avenue commercial strip
  • Federal Boulevard restaurant row
  • Unincorporated Adams County toward Henderson
  • Unincorporated Arapahoe County southeast of the city

Questions

Denver septic questions, answered

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Call Affordable Septic Pumping at 720-427-7557 or request a free quote. Family owned and serving Adams County, Arapahoe County, and Jefferson County for over 20 years.