Inspecting onsite systems for Stearns County Environmental Services, the county’s planning and zoning division, enabled Minnesota regulator Tim Haeg to see a broad spectrum of materials, equipment, practices and workmanship. In March 2000, he left the public sector to open Watab in St. Joseph, Minnesota. The company specializes in onsite system designs and inspections. Finding solutions to the common construction errors Haeg had seen enabled him to design better systems.“From day one, I’ve never had a slow spell,” says Haeg, 44. “I did 200 jobs that first year, two-thirds of them design and the remainder inspections. Every year has shown
