June 2007 Table of Contents

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Features

  • 8Breaking Ground: Getting Priorities Right
    It’s summer. You’re busy. The mornings come early. The days are long. Would a family vacation or a fishing trip feel good? Why not take it?
  • 14Basic Training: Identifying Disturbed Soils
    By learning to recognize filled areas and other unnatural soil conditions, you can avoid installing systems that are likely to have problems down the road.
  • 18Rules and Regs: Arizona Tightens Reporting and Permit Requirements
    People who purchase properties with septic systems or alternative onsite systems now must report the transaction to the state under a under a new law in 2006.
  • 20Special Feature: In the Ground
    Installers can benefit from a variety of innovations in tanks and vaults, risers and lids, flow control devices, and accessories.
  • 24Machine Matters: Sizing Up Trailers
    When looking for the ideal unit to tow your equipment, don’t skimp on quality. Here are some purchase decision factors to consider.
  • 28Overheard Online: Tough Challenge
    Installers’ ideas help a fellow professional deal with a nasty problem in a commercial system that’s failing because of grease and hydraulic overload.
  • 30Cover Story: Building Communities
    Dale Mask creates collaboration among professionals as he works to install quality systems and enhance the industry in Alabama
  • 34Profile: Trying Before Selling
    A recirculating gravel filter with drip irrigation provides a sound replacement for a failed conventional system, and an education day for Indiana installers.

Columns

  • 10Association News: Organizations Commit to Biosolids Program
    The National Biosolids Partnership (NBP) environmental management system (EMS) for biosolids program reached a new milestone when the Lowell Regional Waste-water Utility in Lowell, Mass., and the Town of Erving in Erving, Mass., became members.
  • 26Industry News: Industry News
    Zoeller Pump Co. has recalled about 2,300 of its septic pumps with 20-foot black cord because the plug could have a grounding problem that produces an electric shock.