Entries Tagged Pollution

Three counties on Ohio’s eastern border are beginning to implement a state requirement that all onsite systems be pumped and inspected and...

After a couple of years of flirting with the issue, the New Castle County Council in Delaware imposed a permanent moratorium for...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of an Amish community and against Filmore County, Minnesota, which had ordered the Amish to...

Every now and then my inbox overflows with mainstream media news accounts that bring the onsite industry to the forefront. Sometimes they...

Sometimes you take for granted that everyone working in the industry knows why our systems are so important to the environment and...

Part of the federal budget infrastructure request from President Joe Biden says money could be used for repairing up to 180,000 septic...

A proposal to increase residential development in the Dolores River Valley has residents of Montezuma County, Colorado, concerned about water quality and...

Five years after contaminated water in Flint became a national news story, Michigan’s governor announced a huge infrastructure bill that addresses water...

Southwestern Wisconsin residents are in the middle of a controversy about drinking water. There is contamination from animal and human waste, concern...

It’s been more than a year since the attempt to create a statewide sanitary code failed in the Michigan Legislature, but the...

It looks as if the Florida Legislature will take action to improve water quality after all. Several years ago, legislators repealed a state...

John R. Smith had semiretired as an engineer and decided to spend more time in his rental house on Martha’s Vineyard, an...

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said last fall that the county will install 1,200 nitrogen-reducing onsite systems in 2020. This would more...

The Lake George Town Board in New York approved an agreement that will help residents replace failing septic systems. Under the agreement,...