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5 Rules for Writing Content on Your Business Website
When potential customers are trying to find an septic professional, they most likely are searching online. They’ll go straight to your company...
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How to Pick a Soil Loading Rate
For any given site, the soil loading rate is a function of the soil texture, structure and consistence; wastewater characteristics; and site...
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Rules and Regs: Citizen Challenges Septic System Ban in California Community
One resident tried but failed to break a decade-long septic system moratorium in a California community.The Quail Valley community is near Menifee,...
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7 Great Reasons to Hire a Veteran
Unemployment continues to plague many veterans once they leave the military. Despite their years of dedicated service and a wide variety of...
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Product News: May 2017
Franklin Electric SubDrive Connect
Franklin Electric’s SubDrive Connect variable-frequency drive now offers surface pump functionality for residential, commercial, small municipal and irrigation applications....
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Industry News: May 2017
Kenney named Franklin Electric president
Franklin Electric appointed Donald Kenney as president, North America Water Systems. He is responsible for all aspects of...
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Equipment Inventory Keeps Installer Self-Reliant
Charlie Fisher would rather buy a lot of equipment than depend on other contractors in order to complete his work.Fisher owns Ken-Way...
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The Role of Membranes in Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
There are two types of membranes an onsite professional may run into: reverse osmosis and membrane bioreactors. Although the process is similar...
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Bringing a No-Dig Approach to Fixing Septic Systems
The three partners who bought Ken-Way Excavating were looking for a niche in the onsite installing market. They found their specialty in...
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Meet One of the Gang
I'm excited to announce the launch of a new feature in Onsite Installer this month. It’s called States Snapshot, and each month...
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Steep Slope Solution Saves the Sale
Finding a dry well ended Daren Hofschulte’s point-of-sale inspection of a two-bedroom single-family home in Pine Island, Minnesota. According to state code,...
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Whew! This Pit Toilet Stinks.
This may seem like an odd topic, but I think all of us have been at a campground or picnic area where...
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Working Together for a Cleaner Environment
In States Snapshot, we visit with a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This...
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Trenching Deaths Double in 2016
Never again” he wrote on his Facebook page after a trench in which he was working collapsed in May. A month later,...
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OSHA Rule Requires Crane Operator Certification for Concrete Tank Delivery
Beginning Nov. 17, anyone operating a crane delivering concrete septic tanks to a job site must be certified to do so under...





















