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Whether you have one vehicle or 100, your operators spend nearly all their time in or around their service vehicles. Often, whether or...

In 2017, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to set up a framework for direct potable reuse of wastewater. Now California...

In States Snapshot, we visit with a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This...

Recently we had a question from homeowners who just bought a house and had the septic system inspected before closing. The reported...

The old wastewater system at the house was failing. The system had a concrete tank and dated to about 1963. Loudoun County,...

There’s been some good news and bad news recently involving government coming to the aid of owners of failing septic systems. And...

Location, location, location — so goes the common saying to explain why a business venture worked or didn’t work. Location is one...

Premier Tech Aqua is embracing an ambitious mission: protect the Earth’s water supply — one low-energy onsite system at a time. Chris...

Accuracy is the endgame when it comes to surveying a job site. If that information isn’t spot on, you’re bound to run...

A good site evaluation is key to the design process and provides sufficient information to select a suitable, cost-effective treatment system. To...

As discussed earlier, a benchmark should be relatively permanent. So one is often set at a corner of a building, large boulder...

An investigator’s report shows the Florida septic tank where a small boy died last year was not secured as it should have...

If you are inspecting a system for a real estate transfer or troubleshooting a problem, it is important to know that the...

Komatsu America PC390LCi-11 hydraulic excavator The Komatsu America PC390LCi-11 3-D semiautomatic hydraulic excavator comes standard with machine-control enhanced joysticks designed to increase operator comfort...

Infiltrator acquires Delta Environmental assets from Pentair Infiltrator Water Technologies announced the purchase of Delta Environmental’s assets from Pentair Flow Technologies. Infiltrator Water...

To determine the suitability and location of a sewage treatment system during site evaluation work, I use an Abney level. While it...

Maintaining system permits and drawing samples occasionally result in changes to the engineering side of the business for Larry Stephens, P.E., and...

SCS Systems fills a unique niche in the Michigan onsite market. The company, owned by Mike Stephens and his father Larry Stephens,...