New York City is about to revise its watershed rules, and that includes how onsite systems are handled. Changes also include how the...
Permit Articles
Editorial
Enforcement Needed to Weed Out Bad Contractors
In States Snapshot, we visit with a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This...
Editorial
Arizona Expands Reuse Options for Graywater
In January, new Arizona regulations took effect expanding the use of reclaimed water to meet various demands including, under limited circumstances, human...
Editorial
California Moves Toward Toilet-to-Tap Wastewater Recycling
Because it contains 12 percent of the country’s people, California sets standards in many ways. Now, it will work on a standard...
Online Exclusives
Rules & Regs: California Moves Toward Toilet-to-Tap, Australia Moves Away
Because it contains 12 percent of the country’s population, California sets standards in many ways. Now, the state government is working on...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: Massachusetts Licensing Bills Draw Pumper’s Opposition
Two bills in the Massachusetts Legislature concern Frank King.King runs Action King Services in Lowell, Massachusetts, and is a former member of...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: Non-Sewered Area of Iowa County Ordered to Install Approved Onsite Systems
Close to 40 homes near Chatfield Lake in Lee County, Iowa, were notified in October that they had 30 days to install...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: British Columbia Reviewing Best Practices for Onsite System Programs
The British Columbia Ministry of Health has selected the OpusDaytonKnight engineering firm to review bylaws and regulatory tools for onsite wastewater management...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: Pumpers object to Ohio rules requiring inspections
Some septic tank pumpers in Ohio are considering a class action lawsuit to overturn new state rules that went into effect on...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: Island State Rethinks New Cesspools
More than 26 percent of septic systems in Minnesota have been installed in the last 12 years, according to the Minnesota Pollution...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: Illinois Sets Surface Discharge Permit Requirements
As of Feb. 10, new or replacement surface discharge septic systems in Illinois need a general permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Editorial
Rules and Regs
Florida
Ten of 19 counties with first-magnitude springs (flows exceeding 64.6 million gpd) have voted to opt out of having septic tank...
















