Florida
The Senate Environmental Preservation Committee approved a measure that would limit mandatory onsite inspections to counties with first-magnitude springs. The bill (SB...
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Editorial
Bear Necessities
Koniag, an Alaska Native corporation, is building a world-class bear viewing and research facility on Camp Island in Karluk Lake on Kodiak...
Editorial
The Most Important Tool
Having spent much of my 40-plus-year career searching belowground for things that have gone wrong, I’ve vowed to make it easier for...
Blogs
Webinar explores effects of drugs and other chemicals on the environment
WasteWater Education 501(c)3 is offering two sessions of a webinar, “6 Ps: A conversation about Prescriptions, Personal Care Products, Pesticides, Petroleum-Based Cleaning...
Blogs
Reader finds sanitation picture in Alabama counties “disturbing”
A commenter to an April Onsite Installer article says it’s a sad day when people in a wealthy country like the United States...
Blogs
New law in Maryland increases “flush tax” and creates system regulating where septic systems can go
The “flush tax” in Maryland is set to double under a bill passed by both houses of the state legislature. The $30...
Editorial
On Target for Onsite
From entire new aerobic treatment units to accessories like sensors, tank lids and cord organizers, the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo showed...
Editorial
Poor People, Poor Soil, Poor Sanitation
You might think raw sewage running through yards would be a thing of the past in the United States. Yet it is...
Editorial
April Association News
Soil App for Smartphones
The Soil Web application for iPhone and Android smartphone platforms uses GPS to access the phone’s location, then downloads...
Editorial
Just Like Nature
Three solar tanks, a lagoon, and a marsh inside a 28- by 48-foot greenhouse treat wastewater from 50 people in an office...
Editorial
Beds and Trenches
We have been looking at systems that use gravity to move the effluent. This month we complete this part of the discussion...
Editorial
It Only Takes a Second
About 20 years ago I almost killed my whole family. We were driving the four-lane back home from a vacation in fairly...
Editorial
Advanced Treatment Units
Combination system reduces footprintProblemThe drainfield had failed on the onsite system serving a three-bedroom home in Juneau, Alaska. The lot was too...
Editorial
April Industry News
ADS opens Michigan facility, agrees to acquisitionAdvanced Drainage Systems Inc. opened a manufacturing plant in Clifford, Mich. The facility is the company’s...
Editorial
April Letters
Another View on Pump-to-Gravity
In response to your article on pump-to-gravity onsite systems (Onsite Installer, December 2011), I have worked for 22 years...
Editorial
Who’s to Blame?
One day you receive a call from an upset client because the system that you recently installed is seeping over his backyard....
Editorial
Three Peninsulas
Outback Porta-Jon is a multi-faceted business that installs onsite systems, pumps, tanks, and rents portable toilets from Huntingtown, Md. Owners Steve and...
Editorial
Advanced Treatment Units
Second stage nitrificationNitriFAST systems from Bio-Microbics provide second stage nitrification when wastewater contains higher than normal nitrogen levels or when effluent requirements...
















