Because it contains 12 percent of the country’s people, California sets standards in many ways. Now, it will work on a standard...
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California Moves Toward Toilet-to-Tap Wastewater Recycling
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What’s Your Best Strategy When a Business Partner Goes Bankrupt?
Your business is humming along when one day you get the news that a key supplier — or perhaps one of your...
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Plenty of Insurance Coverage Protected His Business, Life Savings
In mid-2016, James Penner, the owner of AA Septic Service in Clayton, Indiana, was heading back to the shop on a rural...
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Is It Time to Rethink Daily Water Use Numbers?
Is household water use decreasing?A couple of months ago, I read an interesting article in Pumper that referred to a study on...
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Should You Go With New Tires or Retreads?
It’s an age-old question in the world of trucking: Should I buy new tires or consider retreads?First, I should explain what a...
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From Heavy Clay to Bedrock, Every Onsite System Is a Challenge
Name and title or job description: Shawn Chilton, owner, and Jason Jones, project managerBusiness name and location: All Clear Pumping & Sewer,...
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Classy Truck - January 2018
Owners Ted Popp and Jeff and Cindy Tiemann added this red 2013 Kenworth T800 with a 3,700-gallon stainless steel tank and Battioni...
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Two steps toward glistening restrooms
One of the best ways to market your portable restroom business is to make sure units in use at high-attendance special events...
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Consider Tom Arts' Strategy for Building a Successful Pumping Company
Back in 2000, Tom Arts and his wife, Candy, bought A-1 Septic in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Today, the diverse service business has roughly...
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Simple Sells in This Year’s Crop of Classy Trucks
Our Classy Truck feature is typically one indicator of trends in wastewater work trucks. The 18 trucks chosen for publication in our...
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They’re Pumping in the Most Beautiful Place on Earth
Craig Stewart needed a successor to take over his business as he faced an uncertain future. Knox VanZandt wanted a stable income...
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3 Steps to Creating Networking Gold for Your Pumping Business
Networking is kind of like going to the dentist. You know you have to do it, everyone tells you that you have...
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Long Island Communities in New York Tighten Onsite System Rules
Suffolk County, New York, has pushed to replace common cesspools with advanced onsite systems that reduce nitrogen pollution, and now a couple...
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Don’t Let Nursing Home Bills Drain Your Retirement Savings
Most of us think about a long period of retirement in good health. But, we know that all the kale in the...
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Linking Pumpers and the Public in the Classroom
Pumpers can play a critical role in improving water quality in their communities by educating customers about septic system usage and maintenance,...
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Choose Your Favorite Classy Truck of the Year
It’s an honor just to be nominated” is a response you often hear from actors who make the final cut for Academy...
