People living around Lake George in upstate New York have expressed concerns for several years about algae and pollution in the lake....
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Rules and Regs: Communities Add Pressure to Protect Lake George
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Rules and Regs - June 2021
Suffolk County, New York, is planning to establish a countywide water management district to aid in the fight against bacterial contamination of...
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Rules and Regs: Montana Changing Standards for Phosphorus, Nitrogen
In 2015, Montana adopted numeric standards for the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution in its waters. Now it’s reversing that policy.
Under...
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Rules and Regs - May 2021
A bill in the Indiana Legislature would alter the cost of replacing onsite systems with municipal services by changing the state’s financial...
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Rules and Regs: Alabama Water Management Group Focuses on Rural Wastewater Solutions
A group of organizations in Alabama will receive $4.85 million from the U.S. Agriculture Department to develop rural wastewater solutions for the...
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Rules and Regs - April 2021
A portable restroom operator lost his tax case before the Missouri state Supreme Court and now faces thousands of dollars in penalties....
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Rules and Regs: New Water Management District to Help Suffolk County, New York, Reduce Nitrogen
Suffolk County, New York, is planning to establish a countywide water management district to aid in the fight against bacterial contamination of...
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Rules and Regs - March 2021
As part of a tax case, the state Supreme Court exempted portable restrooms from the consumer sales and service tax for their...
Editorial
New NOWRA Executive Director Pushes for a Higher Industry Profile
In January, the longest-serving executive director of the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association retired, and the next executive director started. Eric Casey’s...
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Rules and Regs: Indiana Considers Shifting Cost of Replacing Onsite Systems
A bill in the Indiana Legislature would alter the cost of replacing onsite systems with municipal services by changing the state’s financial...
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Rules and Regs - February 2021
Voters in Talladaga County, Alabama, decisively said septage may not be spread on land in the county. Although the county still had...
Editorial
Skip Norsic Finds a Diamond in the Rough
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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Rules and Regs: Citizens Rally to Stop Health Department Changes
Citizen opposition sank a proposal to dissolve the joint Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in the state of Washington and create a county...
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Rules and Regs - January 2021
Five years after contaminated water in Flint became a national news story, Michigan’s governor announced a huge infrastructure bill to address water...
