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A Beak Junior Member Offline I love Water and Wastewater.com Posts: 80 Company or Organization: City of Biddeford WWTP	Funeral Home IPP Nov 03^rd, 2011, 9:48am Hello. Should a funeral home that does embalming be required to treat their wastewater before it is discharged to a collection system? Thank you Alex
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Re: Funeral Home IPP
Reply #1 - Nov 3^rd, 2011, 12:49pm

The simple answer is that it depends on the regulations of the authority in charge. My take on the USEPA regulations is that it must be at least evaluated for its impact on the wastewater plant where it winds up. All this would be covered under the pretreatment standard rules. It would be no different from any other business/industry.

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Re: Funeral Home IPP
Reply #2 - Nov 4^th, 2011, 10:46am

I will be evaluating two or three funeral homes in the next several weeks and what they are dumping down the drains and in what volumes will be asked.

With ever increasing population numbers is the ever increasing numbers of deaths. This means that the volume of embalming fluids and chemicals used at funeral homes is increasing and not decreasing.

I do not anticipate having to issue a permit/control document to any of the local funeral homes, but I am leaving the door open for in the future.

~Eric

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grrun God Member Offline WaterandWastewa ter.Com is the best! Posts: 3525 Pekin, IL Gender: Company or Organization: Freelance Environmental Engine	Re: Funeral Home IPP Reply #3 - Nov 4^th, 2011, 11:38am I believe that Eric has the right approach and hope that he may share the results with the Forum after completion. grrun
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Eric Raj God Member Offline As long as it flows, I'll treat it! Posts: 518 Gender: Company or Organization: City of Bedford	Re: Funeral Home IPP Reply #4 - Nov 4^th, 2011, 2:20pm I will be happy to share what I find. Hopefully nothing unusual will pop up! Heh, heh. ~Eric TGIF!
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almar1965 God Member Offline Composting is the work of Satan !! Posts: 1269 Santiago Gender: Company or Organization: Sinquiver Ltda	Re: Funeral Home IPP Reply #5 - Nov 5^th, 2011, 6:10am Hi Eric I tfear you may be confusing this waste stream with one from Pfizers Viagra factory
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Eric Raj God Member Offline As long as it flows, I'll treat it! Posts: 518 Gender: Company or Organization: City of Bedford	Re: Funeral Home IPP Reply #6 - Nov 7^th, 2011, 8:00am LOL Good one! ~Eric
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Jeff Naumann God Member Offline I love Water and Wastewater.com Posts: 1133 Torrance, California Gender: Company or Organization: Jeff Naumann & Associates	Re: Funeral Home IPP Reply #7 - Nov 7^th, 2011, 2:58pm Here's something from Jacksonville, Florida on their "required" Best Management Practices." http://www.jea.com/about/pub/downloads/ip/embalming_facilities.pdf
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Eric Raj God Member Offline As long as it flows, I'll treat it! Posts: 518 Gender: Company or Organization: City of Bedford	Re: Funeral Home IPP Reply #8 - Nov 9^th, 2011, 9:16am Thanks Jeff! I am going to incorporate those BMPs into my checklist/survey/inspection of local funeral homes. ~Eric "Sunshine falling on me, blue skies for as far as I can see..."
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Re: Funeral Home IPP
Reply #9 - Apr 27^th, 2012, 1:42am

Funeral homes should always ensure their waste sytem for their funeral service operation. The Federal Trade Commission recently carried out a probe into the funeral business, to see if funeral homes were complying with federal rules related to their trade. The Federal Trade Commission found proof of significant violations in an important number of funeral homes. Source for this article: High number of violations revealed in FTC probe of funeral homes. If you know some services that violates the act, report them immediately.

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