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

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

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...

Powerblanket multi-duty heating blanketThe multi-duty heating blanket from Powerblanket can thaw frozen ground (up to 24 inches deep) and protect construction materials...

Carroll County commissioner says the State of Maryland is “cooking the books” in a study of the contribution of septic systems to...

Before we move on to more specific discussions of installing soil treatment units in the coming months, we want to finish our...

Fountain Square Theatre, a two-minute cab ride from downtown Indianapolis, only a mile and a half from downtown Indianapolis at the intersection...

Who’s the best backhoe operator you know? Do you see yourself as the best? Well, there’s a way to prove your chops:...

DuPont Landscape SystemsGroundGrid soil stabilization from DuPont Landscape Systems is a geotextile that uses a three-dimensional honeycomb grid structure to provide ground...

The Michigan Supreme Court has accepted an appeal of a lawsuit claiming the state’s Department of Environmental Quality does not have the...

A couple wanted to build their five-bedroom dream home on the Payette River in Emmett, Idaho. The Gem County Health Department mandated...

As we travel and talk about good installation principles, we often hear questions about why installers need to know their soils. Last...

Rodney Atkins rose from a hardscrabble beginning as a sickly orphan to the heights of country music stardom, producing back-to-back Billboard top...

You can learn a great deal about how to win in business from the champions in the world of college sports. The...