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State onsite rules proposed in California would require agencies to test for nitrate entering the groundwater, but agency officials contend that they...

Streamlining Rules Waste Water Nova Scotia held focus meetings with industry professionals around the province to learn which legislative issues needed clarification or...

Changes proposed by the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing would bring onsite regulations in line with those recently established by...

When there’s a sewage odor at a home or other building with a septic system, the tendency is to blame the onsite...

Oil Field Wastewater Tanks The Alberta Onsite Wastewater Management Association Industry spring newsletter warns installers that wastewater treatment plants decommissioned from oil fields...

In keeping with our tour of onsite treatment systems, we now turn to pumping systems. Of course, one aspect of pumping systems...

An engineer in St. Charles County, Mo., hired 18-year-olds to do his percolation tests, designed the onsite systems on his kitchen table,...

His hair was soaked with nervous perspiration; around his waist rested the champion’s belt; in his hand were clutched ten crisp $100...

Missouri The attorney general recommended that Camden, Miller, Benton, and Morgan counties work together to create a regional sewer district whose boundaries surround...

Tom Hoeffken, a third-generation entrepreneur, grew up in the excavating business his grandfather started in the 1890s. Today, he and his son, Gabe,...

Champion to Children Members of the Indiana Onsite Wastewater Professional Association (IOWPA) helped New Song Mission, a Christian nonprofit organization, in building homes...

In the past two issues, we have reviewed definitions of sewage tanks and the design considerations for septic tanks. This month we...

It is a fact of chemistry and physics that hydrogen sulfide gas will be produced in all septic tanks as organic waste...

The Virginia state EPA-approved Watershed Implementation Plan includes nitrogen-reducing onsite systems and pumping of septic tanks every five years. Implementation would require...

By inventing new products and finding innovative ways to deploy emerging onsite technologies, R.C. Worst & Company stays on the cutting edge...

Imagine that you’re an onsite professional trying to help the mayor or town chairman of a very small rural community — a...

The Maryland Board of Public Works has announced a program to upgrade onsite sewage disposal systems. The $4.17 million in grants will...