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Education Day at the 2012 Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo moves to Monday (Feb. 27) with a full lineup of seminars given...

As a self-employed onsite system consultant, Mike Treinen personally conducts all the day-to-day activities of his business: marketing, communications, research, field work...

A decision by a New Jersey appeals court upheld amendments to the state’s Water Quality Management Planning rules that limit nitrates in...

Les Harris looks for opportunity – he doesn’t wait for it to come knocking. That’s the way he has done business for...

I think we would all agree that this economy is affecting everyone. I missed the Great Depression, but I am reminded of...

New subsurface wastewater disposal rules for Maine include a 25-foot no-disturbance buffer from water bodies and fill extension limits that move onsite...

Reputation is everything,” says Alex Mauck, third-generation owner of Goodman Sanitation in Troutdale, Ore., a suburb of Portland. “As customers get smarter,...

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,...