Editorial Articles

When there’s a sewage odor at a home or other building with a septic system, the tendency is to blame the onsite...

Oil Field Wastewater Tanks The Alberta Onsite Wastewater Management Association Industry spring newsletter warns installers that wastewater treatment plants decommissioned from oil fields...

In keeping with our tour of onsite treatment systems, we now turn to pumping systems. Of course, one aspect of pumping systems...

The septic system went in last June at the lot where my wife and I are building a lake cottage this summer....

NESC Offers PSAs on Septic Maintenance The National Environmental Services Center has three 30-second public service announcement videos on the importance of septic...

I read the article on hydrogen sulfide and septic tanks (“Why Do They Break Down?” Onsite Installer, May 2011). As a designer/installer in...

An engineer in St. Charles County, Mo., hired 18-year-olds to do his percolation tests, designed the onsite systems on his kitchen table,...

Suppose you had a farm of about 25 acres and your neighbor had a farm of about 75 acres. What if the...

For those reading this series on the Treatment Train for the first time, welcome to the process of evaluating the components of...

Transducer control panel Transducer control panels from Alderon Industries pump and monitor liquid from onsite systems. They can accommodate multiple pumping ranges of...

HydroLogex Introduces EnviroCAAT Treatment Module The EnviroCAAT primary treatment module from HydroLogex LLC is a modified sequencing batch reactor that operates in a...

California Environmental advocacy groups Heal the Ocean and Heal the Bay filed a lawsuit against the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)...

Blowing and drifting snow often closed stretches of Interstate 15 and mountain passes near Dearborn, Mont., backing up traffic to southbound and...

Super Summit The National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA), State Onsite Regulators Alliance (SORA), and National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) are sponsoring the...

This is the last in our series on installation of septic and sewage tanks. From here, we will move on to pump...

In the town of 13,000 where I work, there’s a stockbroker/investment advisor whose name appears regularly in the big-city daily published 100...

Bear Onsite Achieves NSF Standard 46 Certification Six effluent filters (ML3-910, ML3-916, ML3-925, ML3-932, ML3-948, ML3-964) from Bear Onsite LLC have received NSF/ANSI...

I want to comment briefly on Jon Houseknecht’s letter (“Flies a Good Thing?”, Onsite Installer, April 2011). In Cochise County, Ariz., these...

500 gpd treatment unit The Ecoflo treatment unit from Premier Tech Aqua is a polyethylene, ready-to-install, 500 gpd unit with all pre-assembled components....