Onsite Septic Systems and ATUs

Bio-Microbics receives award Bio-Microbics received the 2017 North American Integrated Water Treatment Technology Award from Frost & Sullivan. The award was presented on...

Turning dreams of owning an island home into a reality is a specialty of Penny Wright, owner of The Wright Choice Septics...

In March 2015, homeowners approached onsite designer Penny Wright of Nottingham, New Hampshire, to design a replacement system, but she was too...

You’ve probably seen an episode or two of popular house-flipping shows on cable TV. You know the type, where a Hollywood-cute couple...

Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) was upgrading its 230 kV Lumberton substation in Mount Holly, New Jersey. The control house,...

Last month, we covered estimating of average daily sewage flows for single-family residences. For other types of structures, the picture gets a...

Rocky coastal properties present system challengesProblem: Given local setback rules and challenging soil limitations on the rocky coast of Maine, many homeowners...

Currently, there are two small-flow membrane bioreactors actively marketed for U.S. residential septic system applications: Bio-Microbics BioBarrier and the BUSSE GT system. These membrane...

Legacy Septic and Excavation thrives on onsite treatment system repairs and replacements. Those projects often involve challenging sites with clay soils or...

When you are dealing with small lots, one option that may be considered is using the current location of a soil treatment...

Here is another series of problems to help maintain and sharpen our sewage math skills. For the first problem let’s look at...

To answer these questions I would first convert the measurements in inches to feet:60 inches ÷ 12 inches/foot = 5 feet 108 inches ÷...

Two bills in the Massachusetts Legislature concern Frank King.King runs Action King Services in Lowell, Massachusetts, and is a former member of...

The federal biosolids rule is contained in 40 CFR Part 503 and is a major focus of the Resource Conservation and Recovery...

A mountain home needed a replacement onsite treatment system. There was just one problem: The property around the house was largely solid...

With kids like Stella Bowles on the case, the future of the onsite industry will be in very good hands.This one-girl environmental...

Shortly after purchasing a five-bedroom home in Centennial, Colorado, the buyers received a shock. The Tri-County Health Department red-tagged the onsite system...