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BAT Onsite Uses Technology to Help Customers Protect a Sensitive Watershed Environment
In northern Maryland, BAT Onsite is fairly new on the scene. The same isn’t true of its owner, who has been building...
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This Successful Lone Star State Company Started With a Narrow Focus on Real Estate Inspections
Waxahachie, Texas, on the edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is in a geologic area of clay soils, fractured rock and limestone....
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North Carolina Waterfront Community Honors Septic Program Leader
In 2000, the thriving North Carolina beach town of Nags Head faced the same challenges with maintaining its decentralized wastewater systems as...
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The Summer Camp Challenge: Dealing With Spikes in Flow
During the 2018 summer season, wastewater ponding at the toe of a drainfield alerted the owner of a nonprofit girls camp in...
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Remember Maintenance to Control Biomat in the Drainfield
We always spend time at workshops discussing what happens in the soil when septic tank effluent is applied by gravity. We’ve had...
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Jennifer Morris Believes in the Value of Networking
In States Snapshot, we talk to a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This...
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Effort to Create a Michigan Sanitary Code Is Moving Slowly
It’s been more than a year since the attempt to create a statewide sanitary code failed in the Michigan Legislature, but the...
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Product Spotlight - March 2020
There’s no denying the rise in demand for sustainable technologies to answer the world’s water needs. The BioBarrier HSMBR (High Strength Membrane...
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Case Studies - March 2020
Sequencing batch reactor a fit for island resort
Problem: An island resort in the Florida Keys was having trouble meeting discharge limits with...
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Product Focus - March 2020
ControlsSJE Rhombus Model 122The Model 122 control panel from SJE Rhombus controls two 120/208/240-volt, single-phase pumps in water and sewage installations. This panel includes a duplex...
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Downsizing Was the Best Thing That Could Happen to Florida’s Martin Septic Service
A decade ago, Martin Septic Service was a large and diverse wastewater services provider. Through circumstances and choice, it’s now much smaller....
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WWETT Your Appetite for the Biggest Show in Wastewater
The deep winter is a great time for most installers to address two things that are set aside during the busy season:...
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It’s All Uphill for an Arkansas Replacement System
The owner of a rental house had a failing onsite system, and untreated wastewater was flowing downhill toward a creek. But when...
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Exploring Hydraulic vs. Organic Loading in Residential Systems
Up until now, wastewater quantity (flow), expressed as gallons per day, along with soil characteristics reflected in the long-term acceptance rate, expressed...
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For Mike Capra, Job No. 1 Is Satisfying and Educating the Customer
Mike Capra - Owner
Business: Capra’s Utilities, White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Age: 43
Years in the industry: 26. We are a second-generation family-owned...
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Florida Moving Toward Overhaul of Water Laws, May Bring Back Septic Inspections
It looks as if the Florida Legislature will take action to improve water quality after all.
Several years ago, legislators repealed a state...
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Industry News - February 2020
Eljen receives US HIRE Vets awardEljen, based in Windsor, Connecticut, received the Platinum Award from the U.S. Department of Labor HIRE Vets...
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Engineer John R. Smith Moved to His Retirement Destination and Found a Wastewater Challenge to Tackle
John R. Smith had semiretired as an engineer and decided to spend more time in his rental house on Martha’s Vineyard, an...
