Brighton publishes unusually specific commercial grease-control guidance, and the sewer provider changes at a real local landmark: Tower Road. Brighton's City sewer system collects the discharge, but customers west of Tower Road send it to Metro Water Recovery's Northern Treatment Plant and customers east of Tower Road send it to the Town of Lochbuie Wastewater Treatment Plant. That split makes the street address, rather than the Brighton name on a mailing label, essential when planning a restaurant interceptor or asking about disposal.
The City of Brighton Utilities Department administers its industrial and commercial pretreatment and Grease Control Program for the Brighton sewer service area. The treatment operator is address-dependent: Metro Water Recovery west of Tower Road, Lochbuie east of Tower Road. Adams County food-safety inspection is a separate public-health function. Confirm the sewer service area and any treatment-plant-specific direction with Brighton Utilities before installation, remodeling, or hiring a hauler.
Brighton's commercial requirements are explicit
Brighton's food-related-business page says food-processing and food-service businesses must install and maintain outdoor grease interceptors as an integral part of the establishment. It identifies Municipal Code section 13-12-210 as the ordinance basis and describes City grease inspections, construction-plan review for new businesses, and retrofitting of existing businesses. The same page states that grease interceptors must be pumped every 90 days and grease traps cleaned out every 7 days. Those are Brighton's published numbers; do not replace them with a generalized statewide interval. The page also links the City's sizing table, maintenance log, detail drawings, and management-practices document.
Tower Road is a treatment boundary, not a health boundary
Brighton's sewer and pretreatment pages say west-of-Tower-Road utility customers discharge to Metro's Northern Treatment Plant and east-of-Tower-Road customers discharge to Lochbuie's plant. Brighton conveys the sewage in its infrastructure and says the City is responsible for regulating industrial users in the applicable public-treatment-works service area where there is no approved industrial pretreatment program. A restaurant near Tower Road, Brighton Crossing, Bromley Lane, or the US-85 strip should put the exact address on its Utility Survey and ask which plant's requirements apply. Do not assume that an Adams County food permit answers a wastewater question.
Records, surveys, and site access
Brighton Utilities says a business may need to complete a Utility Survey, undergo a utility survey inspection, and install or maintain pretreatment devices when conditions warrant. The devices are privately maintained; records and receipts for waste disposal must be available for review and kept on site for at least three years. As planning advice, photograph interceptor lids and the truck route before a first service, note whether access crosses a shared parking lot, and coordinate with a landlord for gates, delivery windows, and traffic control. The City's linked detail drawings should be checked before a new slab or kitchen drain is laid.
Residential oil and commercial brown grease are separate
Brighton's grease-control pages are aimed at the sanitary sewer and food-related businesses; they do not establish that the City accepts a restaurant's spent fryer oil or interceptor pumpage at a public drop-off. Brown grease from a trap contains wastewater and solids. Yellow grease from a fryer should stay in its separate, dry collection container and should not be poured into a trap. A household should not copy a restaurant's 90-day procedure, and a restaurant should not use household trash guidance as a substitute for its interceptor log. Ask Brighton Utilities and the receiving hauler about any claimed recycling or disposal outlet.
