March 3, 2019, was a painful day for Lee County, Alabama, residents. An EF-5 tornado swept through the town of Beauregard leaving...
Entries Tagged Aerobic Treatment Unit (ATU)
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Advanced Treatment for Lots with Fine-Textured Soil
Soils in southern Minnesota tend to be loams and clay-loams. “Glaciers that sat for thousands of years really did a good job...
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A Minnesota System Designer Tackles the Tough Jobs, Advocates for Professionalism Through State Onsite Association
Stacey Feser grew up observing and working in her father’s onsite installation business. One memory from her teenage years stands out.
“He was...
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Advanced System Monitoring Takes the Guesswork out of Troubleshooting
A colleague pointed us to an article recently about smart toilets. This is what happens when people learn you are into sewage;...
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Michigan’s Dig-It Excavating Lobbies to Get a Lakefront Homeowner Off the Holding Tank
The homeowner on Lake Cora near Paw Paw, Michigan, was not in a good situation.
“He had been running quite a few years...
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Product Focus: System Repair/Drainfield Rejuvenation
ATUsAero-Stream Eco-NestAero-Stream offers NSF-40 Eco-Nest ATUs for flows of 450 to 1,500 gpd. These systems are based on Bio-Brush technology, utilizing an...
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Product Focus: Advanced Treatment Units
Advanced Treatment Units
BioMicrobics RetroFAST
Both the RetroFAST and RetroFITT-ee (energy efficient) units from BioMicrobics are designed to be a simple upgrade to enhance a conventional septic system...
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This Busy Massachusetts Father-And-Son Installer Team Turns Away as Much Work as It Takes On
Luke Rotti grew up around excavation equipment. His grandfather was an equipment operator. His father always had tractors and other machinery around....
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Moving Out of the Oilfield and Into the Drainfield
For 20 years Dawn Rohrs worked as a drilling engineer in the oil fields in four states. When the oil industry crashed...
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Product Focus: Large Scale and Commercial Treatment Systems
ATUs
Clarus Environmental Fusion
Clarus Environmental’s Fusion systems are drop-in wastewater treatment units designed for decentralized applications where effluent quality must meet or exceed secondary...
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Adding an Aerator to a Septic Tank
Aerobic treatment units use biological processes to transform both dissolved and solid constituents into gases, cell mass and nondegradable material. Aerobic treatment...
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Product Focus - October 2021
Aeration System
Geomatrix Systems SoilAirSoilAir from Geomatrix Systems intermittently aerates the drainfield/leachfield and surrounding soils rather than constantly aerating wastewater in a tank. This process allows...
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Florida Installer Found Solution for Meeting Nitrogen Limits
Working in the environmentally sensitive Indian River Lagoon watershed in Florida’s Brevard County, Harbor Septic often must meet strict nitrogen removal requirements...
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The Benefits of Installing a Trash Trap with an ATU
A trash tank is generally installed prior to aerobic treatment units. Some propriety ATUs require one while others do not. The key...




















