Editorial Articles

News and notes about the onsite industry and a reminder to share your system install stories: Iowa county forced to pay for bad...

AAA Allied Septic Service has been a thriving business since its founding in the Santa Fe area 70 years ago. Today the company,...

BOSS Industries REVOLTThe REVOLT from BOSS Industries is a revolutionary design that takes advantage of everything a contractor likes about their vehicle and allows them to...

Infiltrator Water Technologies announces new executive vice presidentInfiltrator Water Technologies announced the retirement of Roy Moore and the appointment of Craig Taylor...

Originally designed in the early 1990s as a single-family home treatment unit, BioMicrobics FAST systems expanded over the years, ultimately landing with...

CSI Controls CSION 4X indoor/outdoor alarm system CSI Controls’ newest tank alarm, the CSION 4X indoor/outdoor alarm system, features a unique front cover...

Onsite system owners in Nevada’s Las Vegas Valley were irked by a bill in the state legislature that would have required them...

In Snapshot, we talk to a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This time...

Aeration Pumps HIBLOW XP-80The HIBLOW XP-80 linear diaphragm air pump is equivalent in airflow to the HP-80, but utilizes a “rare earth” neodymium...

A corporation wanted to add another convenience store and service station to its chain of facilities, but the distance to the municipal...

As I discussed last month — most gravity distribution techniques have inherent flaws when it comes to how evenly they distribute effluent...

There’s a road construction project in progress in my neighborhood, with a crew replacing some storm sewer collection lines and resurfacing the...

A bad economic downturn rarely is good news for business owners.But for entrepreneur Stacy Creech, the owner of Creech’s Plumbing in Wilson,...

With most conventional onsite systems, flow from the septic tank is via gravity with the goal of even distribution across the soil...

The other day I was talking to an onsite system installer with more work than he could handle. With residential development on...

When Jon and Gale Houseknecht bought a stagnant pumping business in 1995, they set about streamlining it for a new world. They disposed...

Patent approved for Felling Trailers’ Air Bi-Fold Ramps System Felling Trailers was awarded a U.S. patent for its Air Bi-fold Ramps System. The Air...

K&P Enterprises owners Ken and Peggy Miller have seen their share of failing septic systems, and after years of replacing them and...

Democrats in the Michigan Legislature followed up on a promise and introduced four bills that together would create a statewide septic code....