Entries Tagged Regulations

A portable restroom operator lost his tax case before the Missouri state Supreme Court and now faces thousands of dollars in penalties....

Suffolk County, New York, is planning to establish a countywide water management district to aid in the fight against bacterial contamination of...

As part of a tax case, the state Supreme Court exempted portable restrooms from the consumer sales and service tax for their...

In January, the longest-serving executive director of the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association retired, and the next executive director started. Eric Casey’s...

A bill in the Indiana Legislature would alter the cost of replacing onsite systems with municipal services by changing the state’s financial...

Voters in Talladaga County, Alabama, decisively said septage may not be spread on land in the county. Although the county still had...

In Snapshot, we talk to a member of a state, provincial or national trade association in the decentralized wastewater industry. This time...

Citizen opposition sank a proposal to dissolve the joint Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in the state of Washington and create a county...

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

It’s the dawn of a new year and time to clean out the reporter’s notebook. As I page through the reams of...

Megan Careless can remember years ago when her father and grandfather used straw for septic system drainfield media. She recalls when open discharges...

A septage hauler will pay $500,000 in penalties and fees for illegally disposing of wastewater. In addition, Midstate Sewerage of Millbury, Massachusetts,...

Voters in Talladaga County, Alabama, decisively say septage may not be spread on land in the county. Although the county still had...

Decentralized Disposal of Winery Wastewater Faces New Regulation Hurdles in California The California Water Resources Control Board is working on an update to...