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Please Stop Pouring Gravy into the Municipal Digester

The Office of Civic Digestion reminds every district that the Municipal Digester intake is rated for contributions and Soup Night surplus, never for gravy.

A municipal warning notice bearing the seal of the Office of Civic Digestion, showing a gravy boat tipping into a floor drain with a red prohibition circle across the pour, beneath a banner reading GRAVY IS NOT AN INPUT.

Office of Civic Digestion Digester Operations Desk

Notice No. CD-2026-0479 · Effective July 12, 2026

The Municipal Digester accepts residential contributions from every district on the grid. It accepts them within a specified range of temperature, solids, and fat. Gravy falls outside that range in all three. The Office is receiving gravy at volumes the intake was not built to reduce, and it asks, once more, that this stop.

Residents are directed to observe the following:

  1. Gravy is grease, and grease congeals. Fats, oils, and grease enter the line warm and set solid as the pipe cools. The intake is rated for a grease load of 100 milligrams per litre. A household gravy runs to twenty thousand. The arithmetic is not in the digester's favor.

  2. The vessel runs warm, not hot. The digester holds at 35 degrees Celsius — warm enough to please the bacteria and far too cool to keep your drippings liquid. What leaves your pan as a pour arrives at the digester as a wall.

  3. Starch is not a solvent. Flour, cornstarch, and the pan's browned remainder do not thin the fat; they bind it. The result is the deposit our crews now log by the barrow.

  4. There is a place for it. Cooled gravy belongs in the household's solid waste, sealed, and in no drain connected to the grid. The digester will not miss it. Nothing will.

A ruled intake specification table listing temperature, suspended solids, and grease load, each with an accepted range and a final column showing gravy exceeding every limit.
Fig. 1 —The intake tolerance, as published. The final column is the reason for this notice.

The intake specification is not a preference. It is the boundary within which the Municipal Digester continues to function and beyond which it does not. The Office has already assigned the deposits a case number. It would prefer not to assign one to a household.