Onsite system owners in Nevada’s Las Vegas Valley were irked by a bill in the state legislature that would have required them...
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Rules and Regs: Nevadans Balk at Forced Municipal Sewer Hookups
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Rules and Regs: Michigan Legislators Make Another Push for Statewide Onsite Code
Democrats in the Michigan Legislature followed up on a promise and introduced four bills that together would create a statewide septic code....
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Embracing Environmental Justice as a Septic Installer
To some people the term environmental justice is confusing and unclear as to its origins and goals. At its core, environmental justice...
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Rules and Regs: Florida Legislature Considers Batch of Water Bills
The Florida Legislature faced several bills related to the onsite industry and to local control of water this spring.
One of the more...
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Wastewater Professionals Need to Know Their Worth
In Snapshot, we talk to a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This time...
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Taxation of Onsite Wastewater Grants Ends in New York County
Taxation of wastewater upgrade grants in Suffolk County, New York, is now a thing of the past.
The IRS recently reversed its 2020...
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Rules and Regs: Michigan Legislator Tries Again for Statewide Onsite Rule
It’s been almost four years since the Michigan Legislature attempted to pass a statewide sanitary code. That bill, defeated in December 2018,...
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Fledgling Alabama Program Replaces Failed Onsite Systems
Five years ago, I introduced you to a few determined folks in South Central Alabama who recognized an abundance of failed septic...
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Rules and Regs: Cape Cod Looking at Nitrogen Treatment Upgrades
State regulations expected in early 2023 will apparently impose new nitrogen restrictions on some parts of Cape Cod.The primary water quality problem...
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Rules and Regs: Federal Infrastructure Law Dedicates Billions To Onsite Wastewater Projects
The Biden Administration has launched a pilot program to help communities improve their onsite infrastructure.The program is a joint project of the...
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Opinion: EPA MOU Partners Promote Infrastructure Advances During SepticSmart Week
Decentralized wastewater systems serve approximately 20% of U.S. homes. Although these onsite septic systems can provide an effective means to treat wastewater,...
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Rules and Regs: Significant Dumping Fee Increase Reversed For New York’s Catskill Mountain Region
Septage dumping costs in the Catskill Mountains of New York will remain the same because a New York City agency reversed an...
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Rules and Regs: Clean Water Boosters Sue to Stop Montana Water Standard
Last spring, the Montana Legislature abolished numeric standards for phosphorus and nitrogen pollution and replaced them with a “narrative standard,” which generally...
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Rules and Regs: June 2022
The state of Washington is nearing adoption of new risk-based rules governing nonpotable onsite water systems. The rules would apply to multifamily,...
