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Amanda and Trent Winters Find Their Way Into the Onsite Industry and Love It
A mere nine years ago, Amanda Winters was running her own hair salon and didn’t know a baffle from a biomat. Today...
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Alabama Installers Believe in Providing a Helping Hand
Willie Mae Spivey of Tyler, Alabama, had what the state Department of Public Health refers to as a “positive outlet” carrying waste...
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A California Sauerkraut Factory Requires a Complex Modular Treatment Solution
The building near Watsonville, California, was used for sorting flowers grown in nearby fields when clients Lakeside Organics and Farmhouse Culture approached...
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Service Providers Should Have Diagnosed These Problems Sooner
In our previous column, we outlined a situation that was brought to our attention by a homeowner. We discussed why we thought...
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We’re Looking for a Good Balance of Work and Family Life
In States Snapshot, we visit with a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This...
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Sting Operation Nets a Pumper Suspected of Illegal Dumping in California
Police in Santa Rosa, California, spent a year tracking down a man they say illegally dumped septage into city sewers.
Carlos Velarde Chavez,...
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Why Can’t I Just Run My Sewer Into the River?
In States Snapshot, we visit with a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This...
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We’ll Drink to That: Peter Lescure Reflects on 40 Years Working in California’s Wine County
At one time a traffic and transportation engineer, Peter Lescure did not deliberately set out to transition into serving the wastewater industry....
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Why Do Children Continue to Die in Septic Tank Mishaps?
The words pumper Wade Dooley wrote in a column 11 years ago come back to me every time we experience another tragedy...
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Tight Spot. Few Answers. Onsite Pros Save a Lakefront Homeowner.
Finding a 5-foot-diameter hole in his lakefront lot in Eagle River, Wisconsin, confirmed the location of the homeowner’s 1960s steel septic tank.
“The...
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So You Want to Be Known as the Problem-Solver?
We received a question from a homeowner in Florida wondering whether he should be worried about how his septic system was operating....
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Nitrogen Reduction a Key Component to Florida Water Quality Planning
When the Florida Legislature ended its session in the spring, the effort to approve Senate Bill 1664 failed. The Legislation would have...
