Editorial Articles

SJE-Rhombus redesigns websiteSJE-Rhombus redesigned its corporate website, www.sjerhombus.com. The site enables users to access information through market segments, product specifications, descriptions in...

The National Association of Wastewater Transporters Shoot-Out at the 2012 Pumper and Cleaner Expo Feb. 27-March 1 in Indianapolis featured attendees competing...

Does your company have a website? A presence on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. More...

Vermeer S450TX mini skid-steerThe S450TX mini skid-steer from Vermeer has a 500-pound operating capacity with 1,430-pound tipping capacity. Features include a four-pump...

Line splitterThe Tru-Flow Splitter system from Clarus Environmental can split wastewater effluent flows from 0.1 gpm to 30 gpm into two to...

Florida The Senate Environmental Preservation Committee approved a measure that would limit mandatory onsite inspections to counties with first-magnitude springs. The bill (SB...

Koniag, an Alaska Native corporation, is building a world-class bear viewing and research facility on Camp Island in Karluk Lake on Kodiak...

Having spent much of my 40-plus-year career searching belowground for things that have gone wrong, I’ve vowed to make it easier for...

From entire new aerobic treatment units to accessories like sensors, tank lids and cord organizers, the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo showed...

You might think raw sewage running through yards would be a thing of the past in the United States. Yet it is...

Soil App for Smartphones The Soil Web application for iPhone and Android smartphone platforms uses GPS to access the phone’s location, then downloads...

Three solar tanks, a lagoon, and a marsh inside a 28- by 48-foot greenhouse treat wastewater from 50 people in an office...

We have been looking at systems that use gravity to move the effluent. This month we complete this part of the discussion...

About 20 years ago I almost killed my whole family. We were driving the four-lane back home from a vacation in fairly...

Combination system reduces footprintProblemThe drainfield had failed on the onsite system serving a three-bedroom home in Juneau, Alaska. The lot was too...

ADS opens Michigan facility, agrees to acquisitionAdvanced Drainage Systems Inc. opened a manufacturing plant in Clifford, Mich. The facility is the company’s...

Another View on Pump-to-Gravity In response to your article on pump-to-gravity onsite systems (Onsite Installer, December 2011), I have worked for 22 years...

One day you receive a call from an upset client because the system that you recently installed is seeping over his backyard....

Outback Porta-Jon is a multi-faceted business that installs onsite systems, pumps, tanks, and rents portable toilets from Huntingtown, Md. Owners Steve and...