Editorial Articles

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...

Second stage nitrificationNitriFAST systems from Bio-Microbics provide second stage nitrification when wastewater contains higher than normal nitrogen levels or when effluent requirements...

Charles Webb of R. Webb Excavating in Hockessin, Del., won the championship belt and $1,000 first prize in the NOWRA National Roe-D-Hoe...

Rep. Chris Dorworth introduced legislation that would repeal mandatory five-year septic tank inspections and give local governments the power to regulate them....

Gold miners at the remote Brucejack 150-man camp north of Stewart, B.C., had to dig latrines by hand. Helicopters air-lifted preassembled timber...

Iowa curriculum advances Members of the Iowa Onsite Waste Water Association completed their fourth quarter of developing a curriculum for maintaining advanced onsite...

There are two primary methods of delivering septic effluent to the soil treatment area by gravity: The distribution box and the drop...

There’s a popular TV show in which a lucky family gets a completely new and elaborate home in place of an old...

Unit eliminates maintenance costProblemThe Orihula Sanitary System in Fremont, Wis., had 150 progressing cavity pumps on a 3-inch pressure main serving a...

SSPMA revises certified pump listingThe Sump and Sewage Pump Manufacturers Association revised a listing of sump, sewage and effluent pumps that meet...