Editorial Articles

Imagine that you’re an onsite professional trying to help the mayor or town chairman of a very small rural community — a...

Aerated batch reactor saves homeowner thousands Problem The Clermont County (Ohio) Health Department discovered effluent surfacing from a failed drainfield and required the homeowner...

The 31st Annual Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International closed a four-year run in Louisville with 3,644 companies, cities and utilities represented...

SJE-Rhombus Hosts U.S. Senator Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) visited the SJE-Rhombus headquarters in Detroit Lakes, Minn., in January to learn more about the...

Fan of Fritts You could not have picked a better company to use on your cover than Residential Sewage Treatment (Onsite Installer, March...

High-strength wastewater aerobic digester The Nibbler SBP (square backflush pod) high-strength waste treatment system from Aqua Test handles loads greater than 300 mg/l...

There’s a group of unsung heroes in the onsite wastewater industry. It goes by a somewhat inconvenient name: The Consortium of Institutes...

The Maryland Board of Public Works has announced a program to upgrade onsite sewage disposal systems. The $4.17 million in grants will...

Lake Simcoe, the largest inland lake in southern Ontario, suffers from acute nutrient loading. Environment Canada was concerned about contamination even from...

Two weeks after graduating from high school, while his friends were enjoying the beach, Jason Walter had started learning onsite systems as...

Consortium Seeks U.S. Businesses for Global Projects DatabaseThe Consortium for Global Development, through its Global Contractors Library database, seeks to match U.S....

Infiltrator Offers TW Series Septic Tanks TW Series triple-wall septic tanks from Infiltrator Systems Inc.are designed for long-term, water-tight performance. The low-profile,...

In our series of articles walking through the installation sequence from start to finish, we now turn to installing tanks. During a...

The typical (perhaps stereotypical) image of the onsite installer is a guy with a backhoe. More than ever these days we run...

The Ho-Chunk Nation Environmental Health Department found rising nitrate levels in potable water wells serving the Blue Wing community in Tomah, Wis....

Durable aeration pump The AL-80P linear air pump from Alita Industries delivers a steady airflow of 3 cfm with low noise and uses...

The Maryland Onsite Wastewater Professionals Association has taken up the cause for the industry in the face of a proposal from Governor...

An Onsite Wastewater Summit sponsored by three major onsite associations will be held in conjunction with the National Environmental Health Association’s 75th...

The concept of watertightness in onsite system tanks is talked about in general terms quite often, and everyone would agree it is...