One thing North Dakota installer Terry Novak hates about his job is delivering bad news to low-income rural property owners about their...
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Product Spotlight: MBR treatment system aimed at customers in drought-ravaged areas
Drought-prone areas need to handle water a little differently than areas where it’s abundant. Technology for water reuse is vital for the...
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Product News - April 2024
Infiltrator expands ECOPOD-NX line
Infiltrator Water Technologies has expanded the ECOPOD residential advanced wastewater treatment product line with the ECOPOD-NX. The ECOPOD-NX is...
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Rules and Regs: California Approves Regulations for Converting Wastewater Into Drinking Water
The California State Water Resources Control Board approved regulations that would allow water agencies to develop treatment procedures to convert wastewater into...
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Island Life in the Pacific Northwest Creates Wastewater Challenges
In Snapshot, we talk to a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This time...
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Updated System Requires Long Run to Surface Discharge
In 2008, the nonprofit Turning Point Community Development Corporation opened on the property of a former car dealership in Henderson, North Carolina,...
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Exploring Aeration Methods in an Aerobic Treatment Unit
To maintain aerobic conditions, large quantities of oxygen must be provided. If the influent to the ATU has an ultimate BOD of...
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Case Studies: Large-Scale and Commercial Treatment Systems
Sequencing batch reactor enables camp to make plant upgrade
Problem: Camp Akita, a 1,200-acre camp in Ohio operated by the First Community Church,...
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Product Focus: Large-Scale and Commercial Treatment Systems
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Anua Synergy BioCoir QuadModThe Synergy BioCoir QuadMod from Anua is focused on the small commercial market. Systems are a recirculating media biofilter...
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Product Spotlight: Software helps installers tackle system design
Traverse PC connected with the septic design industry around 2008 when system designers were required to submit a site plan for project...
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Product News - March 2024
SFA Saniflo Sanipit 24GR retrofit pump kit
The Sanipit 24GR offers an easy, mess-free and reliable replacement solution for faulty sewage pumps and components...
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Rules and Regs: Cape Cod Health Board Refuses to Drop Nitrogen Rules
A Realtors association asked health authorities in Tisbury, Massachusetts, to reconsider new nitrogen-reducing onsite regulations. The health board refused.
Last fall, the Tisbury...
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Manitoba Needs to Update Onsite Regulations … Then Enforce Them
Name and title or job description: Brett Gaudry, owner
Business name and location: BNS Excavating, Teulon, ManitobaServices we offer: Septic installations and repairsAge: 29Years in the industry: Two....
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North Carolina Volunteer Installers Help With St. Jude’s Fundraiser
When the opportunity came to volunteer his help to help sick children, Chris Stevens took it.
Stevens owns Stevens Septic Service Inc., of...
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Follow These Keys to Reliable Pump Installation
A complete pumping system includes a pump tank, pump and controls. The first issue is that the tank must be watertight and...
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Case Study: Distribution Equipment and Systems
Problem: A developer with a 250-unit apartment complex in northeastern Washington required a wastewater pump station to address present needs, while providing...
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Product Focus: Distribution Equipment and Systems
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Rissy Plastics FloutThe flout dosing device from Rissy Plastics is a weighted floating vessel, hinged on a flexible pipe...
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Onsite Regulations and Environmental Sustainability Go Hand in Hand
From serving on my local city council and county board, I recall constituents and local residents attending meetings often railing over how...
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It’s Essential to Recruit More Young People Into the Wastewater Industry
Wastewater regulation is his family’s trade, but Ryan Fox chose a different direction. He started his own onsite business in northern California,...






















