Published March 2007

The Pumper Wonder Years

By Jim Kneiszel

Mike Bloom has fond memories of growing up in his family’s business, Sullivan Septic Service, in White Lake, N.Y., and his father, Ken, captured some of those happy childhood days as an amateur shutterbug. Bloom, 27, now works side-by-side with his father and his younger brother, Dan, 25. For grins, Mike sent in some fun historic images from the family photo album to Pumper. Readers with children who grew up around the liquid waste industry will relate to the Bloom family scrapbook. “Growing up, you want to be just like your dad,’’ Mike Bloom recalls of the photos of the brothers, noting that many of the photos were posed and the boys weren’t paid employees yet.